Today in class we complete the Multiple Choice Exam 1. There was a possible 50 correct. Students in the 11 AM class took the exams home to review as we finished at 11:50 exactly. Bring the exams to class Monday morning. In the 11 AM class we also reviewed the Writing with a Thesis handout and went over some of the exercises on page 9 (Exercises for Review).
Stewart Pidd Hates English is not in the college bookstore, nor is They Say, I Say. Buy Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary, The Rose that Grew from Concrete along with Hacker's Rules for Writers. We will start here and hopefully the other books will be in next week.
Homework is to write a summary of How to Mark a Book. Reflect on the type of reader and book owner you are (smile). Cite from Adler. Look at the questions at the end of the essay. We will talk more about the essay next week.
Post by tomorrow at 12 noon. Respond to two posts by Monday. Bring the Initial Planning Sheet to class next week, along with all other handouts. Bring a copy of your summary of the essay as well.
Stewart Pidd Hates English is not in the college bookstore, nor is They Say, I Say. Buy Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary, The Rose that Grew from Concrete along with Hacker's Rules for Writers. We will start here and hopefully the other books will be in next week.
Homework is to write a summary of How to Mark a Book. Reflect on the type of reader and book owner you are (smile). Cite from Adler. Look at the questions at the end of the essay. We will talk more about the essay next week.
Post by tomorrow at 12 noon. Respond to two posts by Monday. Bring the Initial Planning Sheet to class next week, along with all other handouts. Bring a copy of your summary of the essay as well.
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Thany Ouk
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
23 August 2012
Article: How to Mark a Book
Reading a book can get confusing because after you read a whole paragraph or page, you forget what you just read. In "How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler, he explains what can stop that from happening. Adler discussed that using the little space between each sentence and the margins on the page to jot down notes "preserves them better in your memory." After finishing the book, you can go look back on your notes to understand what the author's points were. It's very helpful because having your thoughts recorded reminds you what the main points are. Some people get confused on what they are reading, so writing down questions can help you with learning more on the topic. For Adler, there are three types of book owners. The first is the kind where he has unread and untouched books. The second has many books, but only a few books are read. The last has books that are loosened and worn out. This is the book owner.
Adler mentions how reading a book should be like conversing with the author. As you write down notes, you are asking questions, stating your opinions, agreeing or disagreeing with the author, etc. If the book is covered with words/notes, then that means you are reading actively. If there are no notes written in the book, there wouldn't be any effect in the reading. There are a couple certain ways to do note-taking: underlining, vertical lines in the margins, using stars, numbers in the margins and circling words/phrases. Adler says that writing in a book is like having an intellectual diary. It shouldn't be lend to someone else. It's like giving a piece of your mind away.
Pascual Gabriel
English 1A 11:00 - 11: 50
Professor Wanda Sabir
23 August 2012
How to Mark a Book Summary
The essay, “How to Mark a Book”, by Mortimer J. Adler, emphasizes on Adler’s suggestions to his readers on how to mark a book to achieve the most efficient form of reading, and complete ownership of the book. Adler believes that you need to purchase the book and make it a part of you in order to comprehend it to your fullest extent. This excerpt from Adler’s essay, “Full ownership comes only when you have made it part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself part of it is by writing in it.” (Para. 3, pg. 376) preludes to his depiction of the three types of book owners.
The first type of book owners Andler describes are book collectors. Book collectors maintain their books untouched and in perfect condition. Book collectors are a preface to what a real book owner is to Adler. Adler then also describes people who own various books but do not fully understand them because they haven’t written and jotted down ideas to “respect” to the book. And the third type of book owner Adler describes is people who have their books weared out, and full of jotted down ideas all over it. Adler’s definition of a true, complete book owner is a person who owns a book and communicates with it, by marking a book and . Then Adler explicates why and how to communicate with your book.
Adler believes that you should communicate with your book by writing on it because it helps you memorize ideas from the book using less effort.Writing on a book, according to Adler, also provides book owners with easier access to regaining ideas they have forgotten from a book because the notes you take in your book “stay in there forever.”(pg..378, para 3) Adler also describes and recommends the devices he uses to mark and communicate with a book because he finds them effective. The devices are : underlining, vertical lines at the margin, star asterisk, numbers in the margin, numbers of other pages in the margin, circling of key words or phrases, writing in the margin, or at the top or bottom of the page, and writing in front end-papers. (pg.378-379, numbers 1-7)
Adler believes that if you purchase a book and become part of it by marking the book with your ideas, questions, and arguments, you will then fully understand the book and it’s message. Adler believes that it is not recommendable for you to lend a book that you have become part of to someone else because then you are also sharing your thoughts to them, which will only interfere with their understanding of the book.
PAGA2973@cc.peralta.edu
Soukeyna Seck
English 1A 8:00-8:50 am
Wanda Sabir
27 august 2012
Summary of How to mark a book
In how to mark a book the author, Mortimer J Alder, explains how marking a book that you own is not disrespecting the book but bringing out the soul of the boo. He describes the different type of book owners that and compares the books to piano sheets while the book owners are like musicians. He mentions how marking a book can open up one’s mind into understanding the text more than doing the latter. Marking in a book, according to Alder, is a conversation that you set up with the author in order to give your opinion and understanding of the text. Therefore marking in a book keeps the conversation afloat. He tells us the way he marks a book which starts by underlining the main points, using star and asterisks to emphasize statements, and circling the key words then writing them on the margin.
He explains to anti-book marking fans why he believes in what he wrote but in the end he writes in a way that makes it seem as if he was not trying to convince anyone. I believe that you shows a valid point but I rather write my words on a post it because I can have more space and let others borrow my book. I have a mini book shelf and I like to keep my books in a neat order therefore I tend not to write on them.
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