Thanks again to our mini-lesson pre- senters. On Monday, July 16, our last three groups will present: Semicolon (Kirsten, Robert, Mike & Jotie), Homonyms (Kirsten & Jotie) and Syntax (Albert & Boris).
**Reminder: Please e-mail me your Second Diagnostic Essay by 9 pm Sunday, July 15. I will try to return them to you in class on Monday.
Blog question: After reading Chapter 11 "Strategic Reading" in our textbook, please choose an interesting idea in the chapter and discuss how it might help your writing.
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8 comments:
Blog question:
After reading Chapter 11 "Strategic Reading" in our textbook, please choose an interesting idea in the chapter and discuss how it might help your writing.
Answer.
I find it interesting how the article treats the idea of writing in a book one reads. I was always very cautious to keep my books clean, and when I need to buy them second hand, I regret to see any marks in them, never contributing to that mess. That is why I support the idea of banning the highlighting the texts as not only useless, but quite damaging routine. But the article points out that notes on the margins are useful. I add that notes in slight pencil are not so damaging for a book.
It is also an inspiring fact that Pierre Fermat in 1637 formulated his great theorem on the margins of his copy of Claude-Gaspar Bachet's translation of the famous Arithmetica of Diaphanous, with the comment, "I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." (Original Latin: "Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.")
Boris Garbuzov, # 972002018, 604-339-9964, bgarbuzo@sfu.ca
When I write an essay, I was not focus on writing a outline. Becuase I thought that I am able to remember what I am thinking. However,everytime during writing I forget what I was thinking for idea of essay. Hence, I realized that how important to write a note before start writing an essay.
Jotie wrote:
In chapter 11, I learned a lot of interesting information. Just before I
began reading the article I pulled out a high lighter and was ready to
highlighter important information! I am the type of person who uses a
highlighter to study. I found it interesting that annotating could be so
helpful. I use to do a lot of annotating but I recently I have stopped. Now
that I know that it could save me time for studying for exam, it is my new
best friend! Hence, learning annotation could save me time for studying for
final exams was the most interesting part in this article.
When I buy a book, I try to keep it as clean as possible. I rarely make highlight or write on the book even I use it often. Every time when I want to make a note or quote a key idea from a page, I write it to a piece of paper and attach it to that page. I like the idea "Write your annotations in your own words". Writing in my own words is a good way of monitoring what I understand, and it may help me to extend an idea in writing.
When I read the article about what people should annotate in a reading, I realize that I am a person who write down every details for a point that is important. As well, I seldom write down the main point in my old words. In other word, I paraphrase the sentences not so often. I think I can improve my writing by eliminating the unnecessary details in my essay. I believe I can make the main point more prominent and visible to the readers so that they can understand the meaning of the essay more easily. This is one of the things I learn from the article.
Annotation is a strategy that I have never ever thought of because I thought scanning and highlighting were the two most useful strategies on reading. It surprises me that annotation has that many advantages, so I think I should try to use this method on reading and see if it really helps.
When I was writing chapter 11. I had learn that "strategic reading" is a lot of efficient than the way I use to read. Now I learn that when I read I should be highlight the main point or mark the qoutes that is important for the future studt. When I study next time,I think the "Strategic Reading" will help me a lot because now I know how to study at the main point. Now I will be more effeict and effective for my future study.
Before, I just went through the text books without doing some annotations, and I found that was really inefficient. After reading this chapter, I really felt that annotation can save lots of studying time. Especially for those exams that covered lots of material, doing annotations could be really helpful.
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