getting the essential information

... you read. – GETTING THE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION – 25 Here are some suggestions for practicing the skills covered in this chapter throughout the day and even the rest of the week. Try them! ■ Mark ... answer: the post office.” But you’d be wrong. This passage is about the post office, yes—but the post office” is not the main idea of the passage. The post office” is merely the subject of the passage (who ... that the assertion is true. You might think of the main idea as a net that is cast over the other sentences. The main idea must be general enough to hold all of these ideas together. Thus, the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 17:20

... under the word, you will find other forms of the same word. These words have the same general meaning; they represent the different parts of speech of the word. For each of the forms, the part ... study the entry, cover the key word, then look at the meaning and its synonym. Then identify the key word. When you are able to identify the key word, reverse the process by identifying the covered ... On one side of the page, list the new word. To the right of the new word, write a synonym for it. Study the words by covering the synonym, looking at the new word, and recalling the synonym. It...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2013, 11:12

... none of the six evaluators opened the panel. When asked whether they had seen the bar and the arrow, most said they had, but they took the striped bar to be a graphical element and the arrow ... not just the new link to the homepage. The best way to start the process is by meeting with the development staff (at least the product manager, the interaction designers, and the information ... moved the mouse back and forth across the menus several times. Then he opened the Modify menu, moving the mouse up and down the list of items. Then he clicked on the Insert menu and then he...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 22:15

... comments on them. Some practitioners prefer to gather the defects and the good points about the interface on a single form, whereas others prefer to deal with all the defects and all the good ... cuteness, and so they score well on aesthetic ratings. Balancing this, however, is the fact that the information they provide is rather too minimal. Infants interact with the user by eating, ... decide either way (these require further evaluation) Areas of the user interface that were not tested (no evidence) (these also ■ require further evaluation) Changes to usability and other...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 16:15

... cuteness, and so they score well on aesthetic ratings. Balancing this, however, is the fact that the information they provide is rather too minimal. Infants interact with the user by eating, ... comments on them. Some practitioners prefer to gather the defects and the good points about the interface on a single form, whereas others prefer to deal with all the defects and all the good ... that the results of heuristic evaluations and other types of inspections look at the impact ratio, which is the ratio of the number of problems that the product team commits to fi x to the total...

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Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 09:46

... follows, therefore, that the genetic information that codes for proteins does not determine these higher-level structures either. These considerations pose another challenge to the sufficiency of the neo-Darwinian ... Design as the best explanation for the information necessary to the first life. thesis This chapter extends this line of reasoning by formulating another, more radical design hypothesis. Rather than ... also argue for the positive adequacy of intelligent agency as a cause of information. I note, in the words of the information theorist Henry Quastler, that the “creation of new information is...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... help: • If you are working on the same problem, one of you might know the answer and can help the other; if neither of you knows it, you can figure it out together. Getting the Most Out of Class 93 96 10 ... puzzle! The man is a midget or a dwarf; therefore, he can’t reach the button for the tenth floor. Variants of this puzzle include the clue that, on rainy days, he goes up to the tenth floor in the ... can you ask for help? Getting the Most Out of Class 91 copy their notes or their audiotapes of a lecture. If you want to study together or check information even if it’s over the phone—you will have...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 15:20

... spoken, the recorder reads back what each person said and the group considers how they see the same thing differently, or how they agree. In some cases, your group might be asked to argue the matter ... confusion. GETTING THE MOST FROM A CLASS DISCUSSION GROUP 113 • A reporter tells the class what the group discovered or decided in its discussion. The instructor may have one person fulfill all these ... notes. It’s only fair to try to pass these roles around rather than having one or two people do all the work all the time. HOW TO MAKE YOUR GROUP WORK As the group solves a problem or comes to...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 18:20

... The next time you’re talking on the telephone, write down what the other person is saying. How did that help you remember later on what the person said? GETTING THE MOST FROM A LECTURE 101 GETTING ... mean . . .?” She found the more she helped others make themselves understood, the more she was getting out of the class—she discovered she was interested in what the other students had to say. Maybe ... missed. They might let you copy their notes or their audiotape of a lecture. If you want to study together—even if it’s over the phone—or check information, you have potential study buddies. There’s more...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 18:20

... from the Meta Data Repository. The BEx Analyzer requests the data from the query and presents the current view of the stored data. The query results are presented in a workbook. Only the data ... in the Business Explorer is transferred from the InfoCube to the query. If a new data view is needed, the OLAP processor retrieves the data from the InfoCube. The OLAP processor “builds” the ... data at the center and several dimension tables around the fact table. The fact table contains the key figures of the InfoCube while the dimension tables contain the characteristics of the cube....

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 14:15

... let's add an image to the top left rectangle of the table. Click your mouse in the rectangle and then click on the image icon (as shown). The Image Manager box will appear. There are a number ... and click on the one you want, then click open. Your image will then be added to the Queue window (as shown). Then click on the Upload button. Your image will now be added to the image list. Please ... to be added to the Sections Manager. Click on the New icon (as shown) and the Section New screen will appear. Type the section name in the Title box e.g About Us and click the Save button. You...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 02:15

... mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility. To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, ... were unable to remember the contents of the menus when they were away from the system, even though they could use the same menus with no problems when they were sitting at the computer (Mayes, ... Errors: The system should have a low error rate so that users make few ■ errors during the use of the system, and so that if they do make errors they can easily recover from them. Further, catastrophic...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 14:20

... site and why they would go there. Ask them how it fi ts into their lifestyle, and when and how they’d like to use it. Ask them what features they’d like and what they’d use; pro- vide them with ... connecting the screens on the left represent a normal sequence of events. For instance, the user starts at the home page, goes to the Products page, goes to the Giraffe page, completes the billing information, ... (the card type is not really necessary and can be derived from the card number). Also note the instructions at the bot- tom of the form telling the user not to use the Stop or Back buttons. These...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 14:20

... as the public. They also realized on their own that information about the organiza- tion would not be the most important reason people came to the site. Like the public users, they put the ... to group the cards as they see fi t; then, if they create more than seven groups, ask them to regroup their cards into higher-level groups. In the second case, you should staple all the lower-level ... six put the About NCI DCP category in the lower right of the page. OPENING INTERNAL USERS’ EYES The technique itself can open the eyes of internal users to the problems with the way the site...

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