ading annotations have improved the way I read. I am more organized and annotating is a good way to track what I have read. By annotating I remember the information I read longer than when I don’t. All the reading has given me practice annotating and I now annotate all the articles that I get from other classes because this has helped me turn annotating in a habit. The reading that I was most engaged in was Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples. Brent told his story beautifully and I felt that I identified with Staples because I have faced discrimination myself. I had different reactions/emotions while reading his story and that’s what made it my favorite because if a story evokes strong emotions from your then the author …show more content…
The reading that I was least engaged in was Annoying Ways People Use Sourced by Kyle D. Stedman. The title is not interesting and the reading was ridiculously long for sources. For me, it was hard to get through it because the topic was boring and I have short attention spam so I had to take breaks while reading it. The reading has great information and I learned about different tips on citing and puts them into Annoyances. Some of the Annoyances are the fix, Am I in the Right Movie?, I can’t Find the Stupid …show more content…
Even though some might have been boring they all had important information that improved my reading as well as my writing. I know like to write down my thoughts after I read articles or class textbooks. The reading in this class has helped me make annotating into a habit and I hope to read more because I don’t that I am doing enough reading. I also learned the importance of marking up from the first reading How to Mark A Book by Mortimer J. Adler. After reading Adler's essay, I will start marking up my books because I have learned that it is necessary for readers, even if I must use a scratch book. This way the reader is still able to put down their ideas about the book, thoughts, and opinions in writing. Marking up a text shows that you respect the author and his ideas and by adding your thoughts in between the lines makes you a smarter reader. He says that when we physically write, we can maintain our reactions and opinions are able to stay in our memories longer. What stood out to me the most in Adler's essay is when he says that full ownership of a book is when you put yourself in the book and that is by writing in
Overall, this well-written book was easy to read and understand. The more I read the book, the less I didn’t want to put it down. It was strategic in form and quotes from others often highlighted the previous material talked about. This book also reminds me that, dependent on what type of book you are writing, sometimes it’s ideal to get help from others as well as use other individuals insights alongside your material.
Although the greater picture is that reading is fundamental, the two authors have a few different messages that they seek to communicate to their audiences. “The Joy of Reading and Writing” depicts how reading serves as a mechanism to escape the preconceived notions that constrain several groups of people from establishing themselves and achieving success in their lifetimes. “Reading to Write,” on the other hand, offers a valuable advice to aspiring writers. The author suggests that one has to read, read, and read before he or she can become a writer. Moreover, he holds an interesting opinion concerning mediocre writing. He says, “Every book you pick has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones” (p.221). Although these two essays differ in their contents and messages, the authors use the same rhetorical mode to write their essays. Both are process analyses, meaning that they develop their main argument and provide justification for it step by step. By employing this technique, the two authors create essays that are thoughtful, well supported, and easy to understand. In addition, Alexie and King both add a little personal touch to their writings as they include personal anecdotes. This has the effect of providing support for their arguments. Although the two essays have fairly different messages, the authors make use of anecdotes and structure their writing in a somewhat similar
The book makes me understand the importance of reading and know how weak I’m in reading comprehension. Not only is my reading speed slow, but also my thoughts after reading are immature. I haven’t fix some time to read English books before so my background knowledge and vocabulary are far from abundant.
Many people think that reading more can help them to think and develop before writing something. Others might think that they don’t need to read and or write that it can really help them to brainstorm things a lot quicker and to develop their own ideas immediately (right away). The author’s purpose of Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, is to understand the concepts, strategies and understandings of how to always read first and then start something. The importance of this essay is to understand and comprehend our reading and writing skills by brainstorming our ideas and thoughts a lot quicker. In other words, we must always try to read first before we can brainstorm some ideas and to think before we write something. There are many reasons why I chose Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, by many ways that reading can help you to comprehend, writing, can help you to evaluate and summarize things after reading a passage, if you read, it can help you to write things better and as you read, it can help you to think and evaluate of what to write about.
Although it has only been 2 weeks that I have been attending in this writing course, I have already expanded my knowledge greatly and gained plenty of courage in a very little time period. I am not an avid reader, nor do I ever bother to take my own time to go out and pick up or buy a book, but throughout the weeks, I have been assigned to read a new article every week, and each article has made me realize the power and potential reading has to a single person. How it can change someone’s life drastically. I mostly enjoyed reading “The Importance of the Act of Reading” by Paulo Freire, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, and “All Writing is Autobiography” by Donald M. Murray.
Annotated bibliographies are used to question and test the strength of your sources. Researchers use them to find out whether or not the source they plan to use is worth using. While using an annotated bibliography you first summarize the source. Second, you assess the sources; credibility, why it's useful, and why it was chosen over another source. Finally, you reflect back and ask; whether or not it relates to your topic or not, how you can use it in your paper, and if it has changed your mind on the the topic.
The Annotated Bibliography was an extremely important assignment for me. I had to find four sources and put them in MLA format. We had to pick a topic and in my case it was racism in school. These sources as my teacher said would be the basis of my Works Cited page for my Concept paper. The research from my Annotated Bibliography helped me easily write my concept paper.
As time goes by, I noticed how reading and writing became one of my weaknesses. Having an assignment readings and writing an essay about it was one of the things I don’t like doing. I am not sure if there are any valid reason on why I don’t like it but all I know is there is always a point where I end up getting stuck because I do not know what else to say. Also, reading gets deeper and some of the words are hard to understand especially when some of the readings use metaphors. However, in every essay I turned in, I always look forward on all of my teacher’s comments because I always want to know what else I am missing, what else to say, and how to improve it. I guess in this case, Sherman Alexie and I are opposite towards our view on writing but we are the alike on the view of learning and improving.
Throughout this argument he provides reason after reason on why you should mark your book, while also considering any reason to the contrary. Notice how when he states, “If you’re a die-hard anti-book-marker you may object that the margin,… don’t give room enough. How about a using a scratch pad… then insert these pages permanently inside.”(Adler 2), he explains the counter argument and presents a solution immediately afterwards.
Adler uses his single organizing principle-- the amount of passion of the book owners by the amount that they have handled, read, and marked up their books-- in order to serve his purpose: to show those who truly show a passion and love for books are the ones that end up “ruining” them the most. Those that fall into the categories of never reading or marking those books reveal no deep thinking or analysis, no sign that he or she has sincerely put any more thought into the book than looking at the words on the page. Annotations and notes are a sign of a deeper level of thought, a sign of taking more out of the book than just the story or words at hand. Through the use of classification, the author can split these types of people into categories.
As I mentioned earlier all my experience with books and reading were not bad. I was in middle school when I read two books that I really captivated my attention. One was a biography of Harriet Tubman and the story of the Underground Railroad. I admired Harriet Tubman for her selfness and dedication to freeing slaves.
Chapter 6 serves as a good guide in presenting students with strategies for effective note taking. The chapter focus is on strategies instead of style in order to help us think about the process of note taking while we are in class. Before we begin note taking we should ask ourselves these questions: What should I pay attention to? What should I write down? How should I organize my notes? We are now at the beginning stages of improving the process of taking notes (Pintrich & VanderStoep, 137). This will help being organized while taking notes. Remember that good note ...
Annotating can be an amazing study tool. Whenever you have a test over a book, it’s astonishing how much time you save, and how much easier it is, studying with an annotated book. Last year, I read The Secret Life of Bees in my literature class. I had missed quite a few days, and missed quite a few pages of the book. I ended borrowing the book from a friend, and it was unbelievable how much more I comprehended reading it with the annotations on the side. When the exam came up in the winter, I went back, looked at the annotations, and passed with flying colors. I couldn’t have aced it without annotations.
We were asked to specify our personalized outcomes in the beginning of the year, one of the most important parts of this for me was critical thinking. Critical thinking is an easy phrase to understand however is a more difficult process to actually follow through with. I wanted to find multiple senses of the text. Seminar taught me skills in which I have become more comfortable with analyzing a text. For example, through asking questions and annotating my book I have been able to understand more of the author’s intentions. In class when discussing Virginia Woolf’s “ How to read a book” I added more than twenty annotations to my book during the discussion. Along, with many of my peers I was at first dreading to read this essay because I thought this was going to be a borin...
The marking of the books help the readers. Marking up the book to help remember the thought of the reader and author. The physical act of the writing with your own hand in the book brings words and sentences more sharply before your mind and preserves then better in your memory. Marks and notes become an integral part of the book and stay there forever. Writing a outline is to help the reader to record the work and help understand the book.