freshman seminar textbook

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A 101 guide on surviving Freshman Seminar
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BY: Joaquin Balsells

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Table of Contents
Getting Organized
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Synonyms and Paraphrasing are Very pg:
Useful pg:
Stupid Essays... pg:
Sources, Are they reliable? pg:
Setting Goals pg:
It's that time of the year again... pg: ...
Hacks, viruses, no problem

Tips pg: ...

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Chapter 1: Getting Organized

Work/Study Area Learning Styles Schedule

MUST HAVE: Lots of light, Three major styles: LOTS of sleeping time,
Pencils and Paper, - Tactile around 1-3 hours of social
Comfortable Chair - Auditory time, manage your freetime
- Visual and how to use it in order no
NO'S: Distracting objects, to waste time
Toys, and Your Phone is your
Enemy

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Chapter 1: Getting Organized

WORK/STUDY AREA

This is a very essential part of focusing on your
studies because here is where you will spend the
most of your time.

Some of the requirements that you should have in
your study area is to have lots of light, not have
objects that may distract you from your learning
and have the necessary supplies to complete your
assignments.

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Learning Styles

Visual Tactile Auditory

If you think that you think better Using or modeling things to Auditory learners show lots of
by watching videos or graphs, help you study. Remember expression on their writing and
you are very likely a visual those fidget cubes that were their speaking. These types of
learner. The visual learners are famous,well the Tactile learners people like oral lectures due to
very skilled while memorizing use these as useful tools for their enhanced hearing. These
addresses, faces, or remember they’re studying. the Tactile can types of people really like long
information about charts, but be identified by them using talks. While studying, these
they usually do not have pretty hand expressions when they people have the urge to listen to
handwriting and do not like long speak or give presentations. music which can be both good
conversations. and bad depending on what
music it is.
Link to see what learning style you fit to: https://bit.ly/1qqY7KM

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Chapter 1: Getting Organized

Schedule

Some of the requirements that you should
implement into your daily or weekly schedules is
having around 1-1.5 hours of homework per
subject you have, to implement around 1-3 hours
of social time, and at least have 8-10 hours of sleep
daily.

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Chapter 2:
Synonyms and Paraphrasing are Useful

Said is Dead Paraphrasing

Remember that moment in elementary Citations, they are your best and worst
where you were taught to use this enemy, think that you can just copy some
wonderful word, well you need to come words off that amazing website, next
back to reality and adapt to the high thing you know your college scholarship
school vocabulary. You will take many is long gone due to those five words you
words out of your mental dictionary and copy and pasted into your social studies
one of them is said. paper.

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Chapter 2:
Synonyms and Paraphrasing are Useful

Said is dead

You ever feel like your english
speaking skills are amazing and
that you should not learn
anything, well i bet you that you
did not know the majority of
these synonyms for the word
‘Said’. Now you should not have
any excuses for you not to
include more synonyms in your
writing.

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Chapter 2:

Synonyms and Paraphrasing are Useful

Paraphrasing

I know how you feel about this topic, but it There are tons of high school and college level
is a very important skill to know how to do students that are messing up the entirety of their
properly. Knowing how to paraphrase will future by being lazy and not taking the effort to
not only help you the whole rest of the write their own works. These people mess up
time that you remain in school, but also in scholarships, transcript, and many others by not
college and in your future jobs. knowing how to properly and efficiently
paraphrase what they research. Below are some
tips for this not to happen to you.

https://bit.ly/2W9hsXY 1. Read the paragraph more than 2 times.
2. Note down main ideas.
3. Underline words you don’t know and search them up.
4. Stop looking at the original paragraph.
5. Paraphrase the passage in a document, paper, etc.
6. Check if your paragraph has the same ideas as the original.

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Chapter 3: Stupid Essays

This chapter is the one that you should pay attention to the most. The argumentative essays
chapter includes, point evidence explain, introduction, conclusion, rebuttal, and the hook.
This is what you will be doing most of the year so you might focus and know what to do in the future
to write essays, because school is not the only place where you will be expected to know how to
write essays.

This year we wrote two significant essays, the argumentative essay debating whether if the CWW
class trip should or should not stay as a school tradition.
The second essay we wrote was the research paper about internet safety. This was one of the most
fun essays that I have ever written because I had all of the necessary tools to write a proper
research paper. Knowing how to manage my time and reach the deadline without stressing much
was something that I could not have done without these essay skills we were taught.

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Chapter 3: Stupid Essays

P.E.E.

This is a word that you will hear very often Point: You should make the point of the
in this class. The word means, Point paragraph clear in order for the reader to
Evidence Explain. This is the format that know what the paragraph is about.
you should use for all of the essays that Evidence: Here is where you would
you write in Ms. van Strein’s classes and incorporate the quotes you paraphrased
many of your other classes. You might be from your source. You should include an
wondering how to incorporate this into in-text citation after the evidence you
your essays well it is not that complicated include.
once you write a paper with it. Explain: In these sentences you would
include an explanation for the point and
evidence parts of the paragrph.

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Chapter 3: Stupid Essays

Introduction

The introduction in essays is probably the
paragraph that is misused the most. This
happens because we the students think that
you should explain all of your essay in the
introduction, but instead you should only state
the key points. This paragraph is to me written
at last, once you finish your body paragraphs in
order for you to have the main idea of the essay
clear. Another very important part of the
introduction is the Thesis.

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Chapter 3: Stupid Essays

Conclusion

The conclusion, the ‘killing’ of the essay, while https://bit.ly/2G0lxoD
writing one you should always focus on making
the ending remarkable and that impacts the
reader. The conclusion is written by first
restating your thesis statement, not copying it
off your introduction, then briefly summarize
the key points of the essay, and end with a
super so what. This works as a final persuasion
to the reader about the point you want to get
across in your essay.

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Chapter 3: Stupid Essays

Rebuttal

This is a new term in writing essays for you. I know, the first time that I
heard this I was as confused as you are right now about this new
concept, but it is not that complicated. In argumentative essays it is
probably the most useful paragraph after the body paragraphs, it
works as a counterargument to your main point. This is used to
persuade your audience that your side of the argument is the one that
is the best.

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Chapter 4: Sources, are they reliable?

Identifying and evaluating sources Citations and MLA

The internet is a whole different world to Going along with the paraphrasing lesson,
what is already around us, everyone can comes citations and MLA. Yes you might be
see and post anything they want. This can tired of these words, but they can also
range from useful articles that people solve or ruin your entire future.
want you to use to the faux or fake
websites that even though they appear to
be official, are very likely to be fake or to
mock internet users. In order for this not to
happen to you, you should learn to
evaluate what you find online.

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Chapter 4: Sources, are they reliable?

Identifying and evaluating sources

The 5 W’s
Who is the author, is he an expert?
What is the purpose of the site, what makes it easy to use?
When was the site created, last updated?
Where does the information come from?
Why is the information useful, why should I use this site?

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Citations and MLA

Citations can save your life, bet you never uasWseshtiiglhenecmMoemLnAptfsloebrtTmeiInPsga:utar. enyto
wanted to hear those words together in a
sentence right, well the truth is that it can
happen to any of us.

An extremely good resource to be sure to
use is the owl at purdue, this website
basically does the citations for you.

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Chapter 5: Goal Setting

For you making goals is something that you may think TIP:
is useless, but in reality they could honestly help you. Be sure to use quotes to
Whether it is to practice a new language, or to read keep motivating yourself!!
about 20 minutes daily making these goals for
yourself can really boost your self confidence on
certain things.

In freshman seminar we did an activity where you ‘Lwirfaaaeihbitnrioiosanwutnigontot’flptoeoaaarrsrbitsdnoh,eiuientitngisthe https://bit.ly/30q971g
set a goal for yourself, and you tried to achieve the
goal you set through a four week time frame, which
was the right amount of time. Along with this you
needed to keep track of the days you completed
the goal along with writing a weekly summary on
your progress.

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Chapter 5: Goal Setting

SMART goal

Specific: What do you WANT to achieve or obtain?
Measurable: How are you going to check progress?
Attainable: Is the goal realistic? Do you think you can reach it?

Relevant: Why does this goal mean to you?

Time: When do you plan to complete your goal? https://bit.ly/2VtDbp3

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Chapter 6:
It’s that time of the year again...

Test Taking Skills Mind maps

We all get nervous before a test even if you These mainly appeal to visual learners due
feel that you know everything, but then to the chart having lots of colors and being
you get the exam and you do not even very interactive. These mind maps are
know your name. This is called testing often colorful and have lots of images and
anxiety, it happens to everyone, but little text which make it appealing to the
different people deal with it in different visual learners.
ways, which are the people that succeed
the most.

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It’s that time of the year again...

Test taking skills

Don'ts Signs of Nervousness Do’s
Think that you will fail.
Underestimate your skills. Constant fidgeting with Believe in yourself
Procrastinate until the objects
night before Think positively
Not studying enough Becoming emotional during
the test Take 10-20 minutes each
day for a week to study
Blanking out in the middle
of the test Sleep lots

Take deep breaths

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It’s that timeMoinfd Mtahpse year again...

These mind maps very much Parts:
help visual learners to study.

Main Idea: What the mind map is going to be
about.

Main Branches: Most important aspects of the
main idea.

Small Branches: Specific information about the
main branches.

Make sure to use words, not sentences.

https://bit.ly/1o2bfSo For each branch be sure to include a different
color to represent a different idea.

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Chapter 7:
Presentations

Getting nervous before a presentation
happens to everyone, but there are ways
to alleviate stress before a presentation
by breathing. The following is a video which
teaches you how to breathe in order to
vocalize and have good tone before the
presentation.

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Chapter 7:
Presentations

We all were taught that powerpoints are Here is a very good example of a
the key to make good presentations, but presentation about video game scams
there are lots of other resources, like prezi which only has pictures and very little text.
or others. It is more appealing to your Link:https://docs.google.com/presentation/
audience to have a presentation with little d/1ePNc2Pzjg1gO1S59upk-PQEMwf06FB12e
words or text , and one that has lots of JrDKE1IY8w/edit#slide=id.p
pictures and charts. The presenter is
required to explain each of the slides with
supporting information about all of the
pictures

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Tips and Useful Websites

Tips: NEVER, NEVER speak spanish in this class Websites: Owl at purdue
unless you want lots of homework. Study.com
Always turn your assignments in on time Rebuttal presentation
Do not talk while Ms. van Strien is talking Ted talks
Never wear caps or hoods in class because it is very
disrespectful.

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