How Does Annotating Help Me

Reading and writing should be seen as interactive subjects rather than just reading or writing words on paper in ink. John Beans suggests that individuals should look at both reading and writing as conversations. In his article “Reading and Writing as Conversations” Bean states by envisioning yourself having a conversation with the author, referenced individuals, and characters, readers are more likely to better understand the text. Texts are seen as different conversations each text has a connection to another text. Such as if you were referencing a particular article,book,or quote in your text. Many people have a reason for reading different types of text. Some reasons could simply be because the individual wants to, needs to, discover new

Annotating is a process in which students highlight or make a note of any literary device in the book, important plot points, or connections between the plot/characters to the real world. Annotation is useful to the analyzing process of literature because it refines the book down into the most important details. An example why annotating is important is when I annotated Lord of the Flies by William Golding. One of the things I took notes on were the important plot points. In the book, there is a part where the boys split up into two groups— with one group representing law and order, and the other representing savagery.

The Norton Field Guide to Writing covers topics about writing and composing. Several of which I was already familiar with. In chapter 2, Bullock and Weinberg express how “Many readers find it helps to annotate as they read…” (16). I have become very familiar with annotating over the years. I often use this writing method to help me understand and summarize text I come across.

It allowed me to connect with the author’s thoughts and thoroughly understand the story or novel. Because of this, it caused me to enjoy reading, which I was not particularly fond of before.

Analyzing is one effective reading strategy a reader can use. This method is most effective by thinking about the writer’s arranged ideas. For example, viewing the developed topics and the structure of the paragraph is a way of analyzing. Annotating is beneficial to the reader who is analyzing the text. When using annotating, a reader

In his writing of “How to Mark a Book,” Mortimer J. Adler recommends that while reading a book, you should make a personal index on the papers in the book, but not page by page or point by point. Instead, he suggests making it an integrated structure with a basic unity and an order of parts. The marked book is usually the thought-through book.

By “marking up a book”, Adler means to have a conversation with the author. To do so, one must actively read and make thoughtful annotations. Adler states, “Understanding is a two-way operation; learning doesn’t consist in being an empty receptacle” (Adler 19). With this, Adler makes the point that to fully understand what one is reading, one must slow down, read carefully, ask questions,

This learning activity has the students looking more deeply into their chosen book using a more critical mind rather than just enjoying the book for its basic story line. It has them taking note of what is happening at each stage of the book and why these events are taking place, then taking this information they have gathered and developing a written report to convey their thoughts and ideas in the book along with developing the skills necessary to produce a piece of writing that is easy to read and understand for the reader. This activity also has a lot of hidden features to the task, such as using the correct grammar, development of sentence structure and use of creative thinking to make the piece interesting to the reader.

Whenever I read books, articles, etc. that I know I will be tested on or need to remember I make side notes and highlight. While reading I determine what I believe is most important. I pick out key terms, names, dates, and numbers. I might make side notes and summarize some things. I also like to highlight words or phrases I may be unsure of that I later look up the meaning so I have a better understanding of the text. After reading the essay, How to Mark A Book, by Mortimer J. Adler, my reading process isn't going to change much. I agree with Adler’s assertion that books are as much a part of your head or your heart. I believe this because people can learn a lot from things that they read. For example, you can learn about nature, different

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are,” (Cooley). Throughout our lives, reading has impacted us in many ways. Often times books give people different perspectives on their lives. People with high stress levels often find comfort in reading books to take their mind off of their concerns. Sometimes, people just need to take a step back from their lives and relax for a while; therefore, reading is a great tool. In fact, all kinds of books have also helped me become a better writer. There are many different books that have impacted me over the years.

It is a good idea to ask an expert in something or an outside reference in order to help you paint a picture in your book using specific ideas that are not familiar to you

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To conclude, the idea of teaching writing with CALL definitely offers much in the way of learning value. Particularly the concept of giving feedback to a learner in a variety of approaches gives more potential for learning than previously ever predicted. The many different forms of feedback discussed in this assignment isolate different learning methods and responses from a student. There are two studies that look specifically into how effective online learning environments are and both indicated that automated feedback adds significance to student writing, although students do not appear to enjoy the process as much as being in a classroom. These studies identify two important points, that learning how to write should be engaging and that other real people tend to make it more so. Of these two studies, one was a huge data sample and one was

Stopping and thinking about the page I read helped me make my questions. Everyday working and discussing in our book clubs has help us build on to each other. We usually don’t have the same questions but adding together our questions always finishes as a new idea. Questions usually lead to deeper and stronger understanding of the novel. I always have mixed questions, some that are detailed and that I spent time. I also have the ones that I wrote quickly wrote down, not thinking much about it. When, we had to discussing our novel my questions helped me remember and explain what happened in the chapter and I learned many new vocabulary

For this poster I have used different layers to make a graphic combining a background image, the yellow duck ,the black duck, the bucket and the text and the speech bubbles.