Sunday, February 14, 2010

Writing Topic: Rules for Writers chapter 46

Chapter 46 teaches us about the word texts, which means a variety of different works. They talk about annotating, active reading, making a brief outline, summarizing, and analyzing. It teaches us how to engage with our work by writing down questions or thoughts in the margin or in your notebook. This helps you to remember what your thinking , other than letting it slip away. Tells us to read and than re read again to discover the meaning or what your reading. After you do all that you should try to sketch a brief outline of the text. While doing this pay attention to the texts thesis and the topic sentences. Summarizing you want to state the main ideas or key points very simple and briefly. Analyzing you want to examine an image as a whole and break it down so it makes sense overall.
This chapter helped me out because when I read I never really understand what I just read? So I would have to reread it a couple times. Now I learned that it is easier to just write your thought and questions in the margins so you can come back and find the meaning of it and understand what your reading. Trying to make an outline will also help me so I can put things in order and understand it better. So these tips will really help me and I will try them next time I read!

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