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Category: Reading
Marked Up Page of Dweck
Active reading through annotation enables you to understand more, remember more, and most important do more with the texts you read. Have a quick read of my very short Marking Up Texts article, then compare your annotations on the Dweck piece to this page of my annotations. What do you notice?
On Reading as a Writer Response
In Habits of the Creative Mind, you read and marked-up “On Reading as a Writer” with an eye towards understanding how experienced writers, like Susan Sontag, read. In a 5 minute comment on this post, describe and explain some of the strategies that experienced writers, like Sontag, use to get the most out of their reading time.
Previewing Gee (or any other reading)
Emerging writers sometimes struggle to make sense of texts they need to write about. Often, the problem is that they read passively, by which I mean without activating their curiosity, attentiveness, openness, engagement, and connection-making habits of mind, and without purpose or expectations. This can happen when they are unfamiliar with the topic, or are Read More …
How to Annotate a Text
Watch a pro annotate a text, and talk through her annotations. In the video below, Professor Lisa Giles explains how she goes about marking up a reading for improved comprehension, and to prepare to write about it. Professor Giles is a poet, essayist, and professor teaching writing and literature at the University of Southern Maine.
Reading “Superman and Me”
This image of my annotations of Sherman Alexei’s “Superman and Me” will open to full size on a click, so you can actually see my annotations. NOTE: You can do the same on your images by setting the “Link To” setting of the image to “Media File.” Have a look at what I did to Read More …
Read Faster and Understand More
Many first year writing students ask me how they can read faster and comprehend more. For some of these students, the problem is that they’re subvocalizing words, and using valuable brain bandwidth for decoding words that would be better spent making meaning and meaningful connections to the ideas in the text. Here’s SpeedReadingLounge.com’s Mark Ways’s guide Read More …
