CRCB Chapter 2 Summary

Chapter two is titled “Developing your College Vocabulary” and it is about the importance of vocabulary in the college experience. It explains how vocabulary is extermely vital to one’s education. The more words a person understands, the more understanding they will have of what they read in textbooks. And ofcourse we all know how important comprehension of textbooks are in college especially. Increasing one’s vocabulary opens so many more doors to a person and avenues of research and the ability to succeed academically. This chapter provided a few strategies of learning new vocabulary to strategies to remember them successfully. Ofcourse the best way to learn a new word is to look it up in the dictionary when you across it and one should do that if not immediately, as soon as they get the chance. One other way is to use context clues around the word in question to figure out its meaning. Context clues can be definitely helpful but theymay be not as definitive as ofcourse a dictionary. Prefixes in front of a word change its meaning as suffixes at the end of words can change its tense or make it a noun. The chapter also explains what denotation and connotation are. Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word while connotation is the dictionary definition plus any ideas associated with it by society. Remembering new words can be done by making word maps and using the card review system. Also using new words in your everyday vocabulary will make them a regular staple of your speech.