Notes From Reading S:59-75, 81-90

Leisure reading vs. academic reading:
-We usually read different material (academic: poetry, short stories, etc. leisure: novels)
- Academic reading requires active reading
- Have different purposes--> different strategies and behaviors while reading
- For academic reading, we have to be aware of how we respond to the reading in order to utilize this understanding for essays, discussions, or analyzing the text.

Primary text vs Secondary text:
-Primary:
-the original piece of fiction or the poem
-read to gain the basic understanding of what's occurring in the text and to discover our responses to the text
-Secondary:
- literary criticism or other cultural /historical artifacts or information
-used for giving the text a larger and broader context to find meaning or information


Strategies for understanding text:
1.) Annotation- notes, ideas, reminders, definitions in margin
+ quick, helpful when reviewing
- messy, hard to make out
2.) Skeleton Outline- outline in margins copied onto paper after
+ structured, orderly
- takes more time, often reminds one of term paper outlines
3.) Summary- objective restatement of the main ideas in a text, differing in length
+ highlights main points of text
- does not include any details

Strategies for responding to text:
1.) Photo Collage- images, drawings, words, colors that remind one of important aspects or emotions from the text put together in collage
+ makes emotions very clear, nice artwork
- takes a lot of time and effort
2.) Dialogue- double-entry journal where one responds to important quotes in text
+ quick, emphasizes specific quotes and ideas from text
-quotations have to be taken exactly word for word from the text to avoid plagiarism

Most useful to me:
-Annotation: It is quickest and is very helpful when going back over the text to review. It highlights specific points of the text and shortens it so it is easy to remember what was happening at that point in the writing. I am familiar with this strategy and it has helped in the past.
-Dialogue - I am not very artistic so the collage would be more of a hassle for me than a help. Dialogues lays out specific quotations and important parts of the text very clearly and allows one to comment on what the writing might mean. This is useful when reviewing or trying to write an essay on the text.