Most of us do not like to read; personally I am trying to teach myself to enjoy it. Reading chapter six really made me think about “how” I read. I follow a few entrepreneurship blogs which are usually annotated resources and they usually have new post every day. I try to read them the day they are posted, but obviously that does not always happen and when it doesn’t I usually have to crank them out faster than normal. So, by doing this am I reading rhetorically or purposefully, or either. I think most of the time I am reading these blogs rhetorically, carefully analyzing what is discussed, especially real world examples.
I like to think of myself as an organized person. Chapter seven certainly provided a few new and better techniques that I will probably be using for this class. First off, their three step process of:
Verifying
Copying
Responding
Filling gaps
Was a cool way to make the research process more understandable. One thing I seem to have done a lot in the pass is focus primarily on the “fill gaps” section and kind of skim through the rest. This time around I will hopefully stay focused and devote the same amount of time to each section. Another was using “del.icio.us” as a bookmarker for the site I use as references. I’ve know about del.icio.us for a long time, but I never thought of using it as a “reference” bookmarker for writing projects. I feel like I will come back to these chapters as a reference when I hit a “road block” and hopefully they will inspire me to push through.
Zach,
ReplyDeleteI liked how you talked about your personal almost aversion to reading. I personally like to read, however I've never really paid attention to how I read. It is always a good thing to realize that there are reasons for how we do what we do. These chapters also made me think about how I'm doing what I'm doing. I mean, even if I read ever day, which I do, I never really paid attention to how I read different things. I would read some things purposfully for entertainment or to learn, but others critically for other reasons. Anyway, good post.
Randall
Reading isn't bad if the subject is interesting and the authors have tried to do this with a very dry subject. When I have trouble reading text that is boring I will take small breaks to think about what they said and then read it over if I'm not sure.
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