Study Techniques: Listening and Reading Comprehension

• Studying involves briefly looking over and familiarizing oneself with the general plan or idea of what is to be learned.

Triple's Techniques in Studying

• The first step involves becoming familiar with the organization of materials being studied.
• The second step involves finding and keeping the meaning of the materials being studied.
• The third step involves carefully looking for interrelationships and integrating materials by asking and answering broad organizational questions. The goal is for relationships and ideas to be organized logically, understood, and retained.

Effective Listening

• Effective listening combines what we hear, what we understand, and what we remember or recall.
• Comprehension defines the ability to understand the fact to which attention has been drawn or to understand what is seen or heard.

Effective Reading

• Receptive Comprehension involves a literal understanding of an author's surface meaning.
• Reflective Comprehension deals with a reader's ability to determine the author's full meaning. It alos refers to drawing desired inferences from what one reads and apply significant ideas to new situations.
• Previewing material means looking rapidly to determine the overall organization of the message.

Communicative Process

• The "source" refers to a person or a group with a purpose or reason for engaging in communication.
• The target of communication is called the "receiver."
• Communication is defined as the transmission of information and understanding from one person or group to another.
• Communication Barriers are roadblocks that can interfere with effective communication.
• Intrapersonal Communication is communicating with oneself.

Critiquing

• Critiquing is a step in the learning process that takes place before the formal measurement of learning.
• An effective critique should focus on the student and their performance, not on the personal opinions, likes, dislikes, or biases of the instructor. In other words, it must be objective.
• Instructor-Student Critique is a method of critique where the instructor leads the group discussion, inviting class members to offer criticism of a performance.

Effective Air Force Writing

• Writing is the most frequently used means for official communication, aiming to clearly convey ideas to the reader.
• Form is the physical appearance of a sentence.
• Content is the message that the sentence is trying to convey.

Military Letter and Endorsement

• Topical Pattern is the pattern used to describe qualities, characteristics, and specifications.
• Reason Pattern aims to convince or persuade its reader.
• Time Pattern is useful when the sequence of events is important.
• Main Idea is the most important single sentence in a paragraph, where the reader's interest is at its peak.
• Military Letter is used for correspondence with Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel as well as with the General Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
• Enclosures are supplementary documents sent with communication to provide additional information.
• Disposition Form is used within the offices of the headquarters of a unit, and should never be used to communicate with other offices outside of the headquarters.

Routing Slip

• Routing Slip is aimed at transmitting papers from office within a headquarters or from branch to branch within an office, and should never be used to forward papers to an agency outside of a headquarters.

Incident/Accident Report

• Accident Report contains a complete investigation of an accident and a statement of concurrence from the Wing Commander to the findings of the Investigation Board.
• Flash Report is an informal report for the purpose of providing immediate information to higher headquarters.
• The Flash Report has the detailed information about the accident to reach HPAF within eight hours after the occurrence of the mishap.
• Incident Report used after an incident, reports on the persons concerned from the start of the mission up to the recovery phase. It is used to assess what happened in the occurrence of the incident.
• Formal Investigation Report is a complete investigation of an aircraft accident or incident to reach HPAF within 30 days after the occurrence.

Post Operation Report

• Formal Report provides specific and detailed information regarding a particular subject or area.
• Accuracy pertains to the completeness and correctness of a report.

Research

• Research involves studious inquiry or examination, especially a critical exhaustive investigation to discover new facts and their correct interpretation.
• Synopsis refers to the condensed statement and general view when taking down notes for research work.

Staff Study Report

• Staff Study Report is a written report about a problem-solving process that has been studied to derive a valid solution and recommendation.
• Discussion section bears the background material and the logic used in solving the given problem.
• Conclusion section bears the appropriate and workable solution to the problem.
• Facts are things that are personally observed, experienced, seen, or attested to by reliable/proper authorities in a Staff Study Report.
• Assumptions are realistic statements, not mere wishful thinking.
• Criteria are the standards or parameters which determine the limits of a solution in a Staff Study Report.
• Feasibility is the measure of being capable of being done or carried out in a Staff Study.
• Conclusion section states the complete and workable solution to the problem.
• Recommendation section tells the reader what actions should be taken and the means to achieve the said action.
• Attachment refers to the documents that simplify points made in the body of the report, including those required to implement the recommended action.

Speaking Effectively

• Briefing is primarily used to inform about a mission, operation, or concept.
• Speech's basic purposes are to inform, persuade, and entertain.