ENGLISH
Study and Thinking Skills
Study skills refers to methods applied to learning and are considered essential to acquiring good academic standing. These methods include using library resources, acquiring good study spaces, reading for details, etc.Thinking skills, on the other hand, makes use of cognitive abilities to make meaning from, solving problems, finding, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information. Thinking skills require critical thinking in order to better understand the information gathered.
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ENG 01- STUDY AND THINKING SKILLS IN ENGLISH
Coverage: Library Skills and Guidelines
Basic Research Skills
Citation of Electronic Journals and Websites/APA Citation
Paraphrasing, Summarizing and Quoting
USING THE LIBRARY
A. What is a Library?
According to Dunlap, a library is a “collection of graphic materials —books, films, disc and tape recordings, computer tapes — organized for use.” She said that the phrase “for use” is important because books and other graphic materials brought together for other purposes do not necessarily constitute library. Thus, copies of recent books on various subjects in a publisher’s warehouse and the recordings found in a music store are not “libraries”. On the other hand, she considers a library “a shelf of cook books and recipes maintained by a housewife for use in her kitchen.” The purpose then rather than the size is the factor that determines whether a collection of graphic materials forms a library.
B. Using the Library
Your university has a library for your use. In as much as your skills in using it can help you a lot in your studying and thinking work, it will pay you well to check on itand see how you can explore and mine it for this purpose. In doing so, consider the following pointers:
1. A university life is a life whose every pathway from classroom leads to the library. The message is simple. Your life as a college student should be library-oriented. Your classroom attendance and work are there to lead you to the resources you should look for in the library.You can have this drive if you consider every lesson introduced and discussed in the classroom as a mere tip of an iceberg. The rest of it, its flesh and core, are in the resources of the library.
2. Know you librarians. These are the people you can always go to for help. While your library is equipped with instructions on how yocan use it and find your way through its resources n your own, it is possible that t times, you will feel lost in it. If you know your librarians, you can always g to them for assistance.
3. Discover the policies concerning the use of the library. Your knowledge of these policies can guide you in availing of the resources of your library. These are generally the policies on the following:
a. Membership requirement such as membership fee and identification and borrower’scard.
b. Services rendered such as library hours kept, lending services, copying services, etc
c. Disciplinary actions on books lost, returned late or torn.
4. Familiarize yourself with the physical set up of your college/university library. To this effect,
