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Student Success Toolbox
sample
Comprehensive Read
Actual Time
I spent reading:
Inquiry Questions
Questions, ideas, opinions, discoveries:
Synthesis
Pull it together:
Integrate
The relationship between the new information and my previous knowledge and experience is:
Assessment
The following affected (positively or negatively) the quality of my reading performance and how I can improve:
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The article outlines “medical breakthroughs” of 2007, mainly in the areas of cancer,
osteoarthritis, and strokes. Many of the “breakthroughs” should now be standard
procedure with a thorough medical check up.
I wonder howmuch this kind of popular article influences people’s own health awareness?
Howmany of these “breakthroughs”will produce profits for the pharmaceutical companies?
About 25 minutes
Because of the format of several small sections, I skimmed the piece quickly. I did go back to
read a few sections more carefully and followed up on some of the links, but the article was not
challenging enough to engage me very deeply.
The underlying message seems to be that we should all be advocates for our own health,
especially women in the “sandwich” generation, who tend to ignore their own health. This
very much echoes the experience I’m accumulating in working with public health even in my
currently limited role.
I’d like to do a researched essay on how people get their medical information, and whether or
not this makes themmore vocal advocates for their own health care.
INSTRUCTOR
FEEDBACK
Strengths:
Reading objectives:
These were clear, compelling, and transferable to other reading
situations.
Areas for
Improvement:
Connecting with prior knowledge:
Strive to make your reading summary more concrete and
memorable by weaving in some of your prior knowledge of tests, treatments, and conditions.
Insights:
Tool customization:
The different sections are prompts for critical thinking; some will be more
powerful triggers for a reading and it is appropriate to invest more time responding to these.