TIME: 8.45 a.m
PLACES: Perpustakaan Al Bukhari 2
TOPIC 6: TAKING NOTES
WHAT IS NOTE TAKING:
- Writing down ideas from lectures and readings in our own words.
WHY TAKE LECTURE NOTES:
- To pay attention in class.
- To study for quiz, tests/ final exam.
- To improve our memory.
- Provides an accurate record information.
- Promotes active listening.
- To organize and process data and information.
- Provides an opportunity for repetition of the material.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO AFTER TAKING NOTES?
- Immediately after class review your notes; add or clarify information while the lecture is still fresh. Review your notes on a daily basis.
WHY REVIEW NOTES?
- We lose 80% of what we hear if it is not reviewed within a few hours.
- We can identify any questions for peers, the next class, or to ask the professor.
- There is not enough time to absorb all the information given in class if it's not reviewed on a regular basis.
HOW DO WE PREPARE FOR CLASS?
- Do pre-reading and homework.
- Review syllabus.
- Preview previous notes.
- Look up key words prior to class.
- Write the date at the top of your paper for notes.
- Leave spaces between the lines so that your can add information later.
WHILE TAKING NOTES....
- Be an aggressive, not a passive listener.
- Ask questions and discuss if its permitted.
- If not, jot questions in your notes.
- Seek out meaning.
ACTIVITY 1
Listen to this lecture and try out the cornell note-taking method.
What is Topsoil?
Limiting Factors of Photosynthesis
Seeds
TOPIC 7: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PERFORMANCE
What is academic integrity?
- Academic integrity means honesty and responsibility in scholarship.
- Academic assignments exist to help students learn; grades exist to show how fully this goal is attained.
- Therefore all work and all grades should result from the student's own understanding and effort.
How does UiTM define academic dishonesty?
- Plagiarism - Intentionally using another person's writing/academic work and submitting it as your own.
Examples of plagiarism
- Copying or paraphrasing from a source without crediting the author.
- Using another person's words or ideas as if they were your own.
- Copying another student's work.
- Quoting from another person without indicating that it is a quotation.
- Summarizing information from another source without indicating where it came from.
- "Cutting and pasting" from an online source or the internet without citing the source.
- Copying an image from the internet and inserting it in a presentation without giving the source.
- Handing in a paper to one class that you wrote and handed in for an earlier class.
ACTIVITY 1
Paraphrasing exercises
So, my score is 2 out of 2.
ACTIVITY 2
Cite a book that I have borrowed last week from the library.
Hanson, Peter (2000). Dictionary of Botany. Kuala Lumpur: Golden Books Centre Sdn. Bhd.
ACTIVITY 3
Reference exercises
CALCULATING GRADE POINT AVERAGE (GPA)
GPA and CGPA:
- The final examination results and assessments at the end of every semester are assigned a Grade Point Average (GPA) and a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) which represent a student's academic achievement.
- A Grade Point Average (GPA) refers to the calculated average of the letter grades a student earns in each semester following a 0 to 4.0 scale.
GPA = The total credit values registered and attempted in the assessment of a semester
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The total credit units acquired in the same semester
ACTIVITY 4 - CALCULATE THE GPA
GPA = (3.33x3)+(3x3)+(3.67x2)+(3.67x3)+(4x3)+(4x3)
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3+3+2+3+3+3
= 9.99+9+7.34+11.01+12+12
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17
= 61.34
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17
=3.61
ACTIVITY 4 - CALCULATE CGPA
My conclusion in this week activity is I got to know the effective way to taking a note. As a student, I have to taking lecture notes so I can understand it. To focus in class, you need to avoid distraction. Next, I got to learn about plagiarism and the way to avoid it. When you do an assignment, you have to cite your source. CGPA and GPA is our final examination results. I determined to get 3.0 above every semester!
THE REFERENCE LIST:
- John Moore, Faculty at American Public University System (APUS)
- www.lasvegaswatertech.com/why-almost-everything-you-ve-learned-about-college-gpa-calculator-is-wrong
- https://www.appointmentplus.com/blog/why-time-management-is-important/
- www.llcc.edu/student-services/cas/helpful-handout/characteristics/of/learningstyle-2/
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