Reading and NoteMaking

Part I

Try to read the given

passage.

Try to find the main idea in the given

passage.

How was your reading on the first occasion

different from the next two?

What did you do differently?
What were the strategies you used to arrive
at the main idea?
What were the strategies you used to obtain
the answer to each question?
Lets make a list of the strategies you used on
different occasions.

The List...
The purpose of reading
Key words
Relation between the key words
A possible main idea
Supporting points in the passage

Find the main idea of this passage.

The examination combines the techniques of an observing hierarchy and those of
a normalizing judgment. It is a normalizing gaze, a surveillance that makes it
possible to qualify, to classify and to punish. It establishes over individuals a
visibility through which one differentiates them and judges them. That is why, in
all the mechanisms of discipline, the examination is highly ritualized. In it are
combined the ceremony of power and the form of the experiment, the deployment
of force and the establishment of truth. At the heart of the procedures of
discipline, it manifests the subjection of those who are perceived as objects and
the objectification of those who are subjected. The superimposition of the power
relations and knowledge relations assumes in the examination all its visible
brilliance. It is yet another innovation of the classical age that the historians of
science have left unexplored. People write the history of experiments on those
born blind, on wolf-children or under hypnosis. But who will write the more
general, more fluid, but also more determinant history of the examination - its
rituals, its methods, its characters and their roles, its play of questions and
answers, its systems of marking and classification? For in this slender technique
are to be found a whole domain of knowledge, a whole type of power.

Was it difficult to read and understand?

Why was it difficult?
Did you have problems with the vocabulary?
Was the concept a difficult one?
Difficulty can arise of two things: language

and concept
Any other strategy we need for such
passages?
Using our background knowledge
Slow reading
Inferring finding the hidden meanings

SQ3R An effective reading strategy

Survey:

To get a general idea of what it is going to be

about, what kind of information the author gives, how
many sub-topics the information is broken down into,
and how much time you will have to spend reading it
Question: Turn each boldfaced heading into a question
by using one of the following words: who, what, where,
when, why, or how
Read: Actively read the section of the text
accompanying the heading for an answer to the
question you asked yourself in step 2. The answer will
usually be made up of the main idea(s) of the
paragraph(s) and the supporting details.

Recite:

Recite the answer to each

question to yourself. Put the answer
into your own words, or rephrase the
author's words. Be sure that you can
recall the answer, not just recognize
the information as correct. Write the
questions in your notebook along with
a few key words or phrases that
summarize the answer.
Review: To review, cover the answers
and ask yourself the questions. If you
can't answer the question, look at your

Read using SQ3R

IBMs technology may help detect cancer
early
Scientists at IBM have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that
can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale and
could help detect diseases such as cancer before symptoms appear.
Researchers showed size-based separation of bioparticles down to 20
nanometres (nm) in diameter, a scale that gives access to important
particles such as DNA, viruses and exosomes. Once separated, these
particles can be analysed to potentially unveil signs of disease even
before patients experience any physical symptoms and when the outcome
from treatment is most positive.
Until now, the smallest bioparticle that could be separated by size with
on-chip technologies was about 50 times or larger, for example,
separation of circulating tumour cells from other biological components.
Exosomes are increasingly being viewed as biomarkers for the diagnosis
and prognosis of malignant tumours. They are released in easily
accessible bodily fluids such as saliva, urine or blood. They represent a
precious biomedical tool as they can be used in the context of less
invasive liquid biopsies to unveil the origin and nature of a cancer. (PTO)

Existing challenges
Researchers targeted exosomes with their lab-on-chip technology as
existing scientific techniques face challenges for separating and
purifying exosomes in liquid biopsies. Exosomes range in size from
20-140nm and contain information about the health of the
originating cell that they are shed from. A determination of the size,
surface proteins and nucleic acid cargo carried by exosomes can
give essential information about the presence and state of
developing cancer and other diseases.
Researchers showed they could separate and detect particles as
small as 20 nm from smaller particles, that exosomes of size 100
nm and larger could be separated from smaller ones, and
separation can take place in spite of diffusion, a hallmark of particle
dynamics at these small scales.
Keywords:IBM technology,detection of cancer,malignant tumours,
cancer symptoms

Can you share your notes with the

person sitting next to you?
Work in a pair and compare your notes
Who has a better style of making notes? Why?
Can you suggest better note-making

strategies?
In our next class, we will look at a few notemaking strategies.

Standard Format

Part 2

Pattern Notes

Spit-page Format

Which among these is the most

convenient for you? And why?
Advantages and disadvantages of all the 3

styles
Make notes for the next passage using your

favourite style.