How to remember correctional intervention vacabulary

Introduction

Welcome future agents! My name is Billie, I'm a student at Ahuntsic College in Youth and Adult Correctional Intervention. For those of you who don't know about this program, I'll explain it a little. In these courses, we learn about how to do good interventions for different types of marginal people, like prisoners, criminals, homeless people and others. For myself, after graduation, I want to become a correctional agent and work with prisoners.

Has a future correctional agent, I will have to work with people who speak French and some will speak English and has an English second language person, we all have trouble remembering or knowing all the words related to that field of study, right? Nobody wants to go search in a dictionary for a long time just to find a word, and no one has time for that anyway, don't you think? But everybody could use a list of words they don't fully understand.

I have been studying in my field for three years, but I only started to talk about it in English for only one semester. I am not an expert, but I have just begun researching to learn new words about my future career, and I started a glossary to help me remember words and improve my English.

I am not a correctional agent yet, but I want to make sure that when my time will come, I will be prepared and ready to speak about correctional intervention in both languages.

My goal in this screencast is to demonstrate you how to create a good glossary related to your field of study. The plan with that glossary is to be able to have easy access to words you could have a problem with.

You will be amazed about how easy it is!

The Problem

In a specific job, it is essential that the person knows his subject in both languages. In one day, you don't have enough time to remember all the words related to that field. Well, with a glossary, as soon as you have a blank with a word you can refer to your glossary and find that specific word you need.

In front of a client or a coworker, if you have a blank and don't know how to replace that word or explain well yourself, you could lose credibility, or you may create a misunderstanding. Then, the person might not come back to see you if they need help with something.

For example, when a prisoner that speaks only English comes to you, it is imperative to be able to answer his questions using the language he knows perhaps if you don't know your subject enough you could lose credibility.

But don't worry, creating a glossary can be a great solution to this problem, in the next few minutes, I will show you how it works.

The Quest

First, open your browser. Type VirtualWritingTutor in the address bar and click on the first link. You will see this page

In the top left corner, you will see this logo.
Right under it, you can see the navigation menu.
On that menu, click on writing tools.
Select the third choice that say glossary creator.

The Solution

Now, this is where you want to go to create your glossary.
On the right-hand side of the screen, you will see : create new glossary.
Click on that and put a title that is related to your field, then press new glossary.
This will appear.
You can write a topic and an introduction by clicking on the little pencil, so you'll know what your glossary is about.
Then, you can add words by putting the term, the part of speech, the pronunciation, the translation, an example of this word in a sentence and even a photo.
Then, click the + term in the right-hand bottom of the box. You can put has many has you want.
When you are done, scroll to the top of your page. On the right side of your page, you will have a preview of your glossary, if you are happy with it, click publish on the top middle right corner.
Even if you have published it, you can always go back on your draft and add new word or modify the ones you already put.