Title: AI Module 3 - strategy 3 - read effectively

Reading effectiveness

These videos and activities will help you to understand how to read effectively and critically and why these skills are important for academic integrity.

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Watch the short video below to learn more about reading effectively.

First, skim the title and the abstract quickly, noting the key information.

In this activity, you are only skimming the abstract, but in a real life situation, you will skim and scan the whole article.

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Q: Which statement best sums up the title?
- Pets as companions
- Pets and social behaviour
- How pets enable social relationships (correct)

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Q: Based on the information in the abstract, this study breaks new ground.
A: true

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Q: Which statement best sums up the Abstract conclusion?
- This research suggests that pets could play a role in individual and community well-being. (correct)
- The research confirms that pets are social beings.
- The research proves that pet-owners are more sociable.

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KEEP

Watch the short video below to find out how the structure of a text can help reading. This video is best viewed in full screen.

Q: What aspect of the text does this comment relate to? Rewind the video to read the excerpt again.
- The ethical approach of the study
- The suitability of the sites
- The generalisability of the findings (correct)

Choose the correct statement.