Marking the Text (Veteran Voices)
Marking the Text (Veteran Voices)
Transcript
For different kinds of reading, we read novels in order to have sort of reactions to them and feel certain ways. We do the same thing for academic reading, which very well might be a novel, but we do it with a different purpose.
Our reactions are not something that we just enjoy for a few minutes and then talk about later with our friends. It's something that you should be recording in the margins and taking notes on and marking up in the text in order to come back to them later during a discussion section or a seminar or something when the professor says, "And what did you think about this?" Y
ou open your book and you don't have to react again to the same thing. Your reaction is already recorded for you. So when your reaction is recorded in the text, it's ready to go and it's sort of, it becomes an outline for you to use later.
Our reactions are not something that we just enjoy for a few minutes and then talk about later with our friends. It's something that you should be recording in the margins and taking notes on and marking up in the text in order to come back to them later during a discussion section or a seminar or something when the professor says, "And what did you think about this?" Y
ou open your book and you don't have to react again to the same thing. Your reaction is already recorded for you. So when your reaction is recorded in the text, it's ready to go and it's sort of, it becomes an outline for you to use later.