{"id":120,"date":"2015-11-23T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/englishcomp2x74x2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=120"},"modified":"2016-10-20T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T20:04:23","slug":"reading-to-write-effectively","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/chapter\/reading-to-write-effectively\/","title":{"raw":"Reading to Write Effectively","rendered":"Reading to Write Effectively"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Reading to Write Effectively: Why you need a reading strategy before writing anything<\/h2>\r\nGiven all of the reading and writing that we are expected to accomplish as college\/university students, it\u2019s important to be as efficient as possible when committing our time to these responsibilities. Three of the most important suggestions for approaching reading and, therefore, writing, efficiently are as follows:\r\n<b><\/b>\r\n\r\n<b><strong>read with a pen in hand; don\u2019t expect yourself to remember key concepts\/ideas<\/strong><\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><i><em>most of us can\u2019t remember everything that we\u2019ve read and then call it to memory when we\u2019re writing. Therefore, reading with a pen in hand prepares you to circle\/underline key concepts\/ideas in the text you\u2019re reading. This creates a way of \u201ctracing\u201d key concepts\/ideas throughout the text so that when it\u2019s time to recall what you\u2019ve read and use it to guide your writing, it will be much easier to condense the entire text into a unique, organized, written response. If you don\u2019t want to write in the text that you\u2019re reading, open a blank Word document for keeping track of key concepts\/ideas (and page numbers).<\/em><\/i><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<b><strong>write while reading because it\u2019s an informal way of \u201cconversing with\u201d the author of the text (i.e. learning about how your writing can contribute something useful to \u201cthe conversation\u201d of your resources)<\/strong><\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><i><em>in addition to circling\/underlining key concepts\/ideas throughout your reading process, it may also be helpful to keep a list of questions, connections with other texts\/assignments\/disciplines, etc. because this list can easily translate into \u201cofficial\u201d writing. For instance, even if your teacher isn\u2019t requiring a written assignment in response to the reading assignment, if you keep a working document with questions, connections, etc. regarding the reading assignment, you will likely be much better prepared to discuss the reading, not to mention that your notations can easily serve in the short-term as a Twitter\/Facebook post (which is helpful for providing others\u2019 responses to your ideas) or in the long-term as an idea for a final paper. For most of us, it\u2019s much easier to have somewhere to start when, eventually, we need to complete a writing assignment based on the reading assignments of the course.<\/em><\/i><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<b><strong>develop research questions\/research key words while reading; most of the time, it\u2019s fairly easy to identify research key words\/ create unique research questions while reading actively<\/strong><\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><i><em>the notations you keep in the texts you\u2019re reading can help to prevent the frustration of figuring out \u201cwhat to write about\u201d when it comes time to interpret the reading assignments into unique written work. They give you something to start with \u2013 either in the sense that you can extend the ideas you have already written down, or challenge them by researching what\u2019s missing \u2026 either way, you have something to work with, which helps to alleviate some of the anxiety of staring at a blank page.<\/em><\/i><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Reading to Write Effectively: Why you need a reading strategy before writing anything<\/h2>\n<p>Given all of the reading and writing that we are expected to accomplish as college\/university students, it\u2019s important to be as efficient as possible when committing our time to these responsibilities. Three of the most important suggestions for approaching reading and, therefore, writing, efficiently are as follows:<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>read with a pen in hand; don\u2019t expect yourself to remember key concepts\/ideas<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><em>most of us can\u2019t remember everything that we\u2019ve read and then call it to memory when we\u2019re writing. Therefore, reading with a pen in hand prepares you to circle\/underline key concepts\/ideas in the text you\u2019re reading. This creates a way of \u201ctracing\u201d key concepts\/ideas throughout the text so that when it\u2019s time to recall what you\u2019ve read and use it to guide your writing, it will be much easier to condense the entire text into a unique, organized, written response. If you don\u2019t want to write in the text that you\u2019re reading, open a blank Word document for keeping track of key concepts\/ideas (and page numbers).<\/em><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><strong>write while reading because it\u2019s an informal way of \u201cconversing with\u201d the author of the text (i.e. learning about how your writing can contribute something useful to \u201cthe conversation\u201d of your resources)<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><em>in addition to circling\/underlining key concepts\/ideas throughout your reading process, it may also be helpful to keep a list of questions, connections with other texts\/assignments\/disciplines, etc. because this list can easily translate into \u201cofficial\u201d writing. For instance, even if your teacher isn\u2019t requiring a written assignment in response to the reading assignment, if you keep a working document with questions, connections, etc. regarding the reading assignment, you will likely be much better prepared to discuss the reading, not to mention that your notations can easily serve in the short-term as a Twitter\/Facebook post (which is helpful for providing others\u2019 responses to your ideas) or in the long-term as an idea for a final paper. For most of us, it\u2019s much easier to have somewhere to start when, eventually, we need to complete a writing assignment based on the reading assignments of the course.<\/em><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><strong>develop research questions\/research key words while reading; most of the time, it\u2019s fairly easy to identify research key words\/ create unique research questions while reading actively<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><em>the notations you keep in the texts you\u2019re reading can help to prevent the frustration of figuring out \u201cwhat to write about\u201d when it comes time to interpret the reading assignments into unique written work. They give you something to start with \u2013 either in the sense that you can extend the ideas you have already written down, or challenge them by researching what\u2019s missing \u2026 either way, you have something to work with, which helps to alleviate some of the anxiety of staring at a blank page.<\/em><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-120\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Reading to Write Effectively. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: WritingCommons. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/writingcommons.org\/blog-feed-home-page\/657-reading-to-write-effectively-why-you-need-a-reading-strategy-before-writing-anything\">http:\/\/writingcommons.org\/blog-feed-home-page\/657-reading-to-write-effectively-why-you-need-a-reading-strategy-before-writing-anything<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives <\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":277,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Reading to Write Effectively\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"WritingCommons\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/writingcommons.org\/blog-feed-home-page\/657-reading-to-write-effectively-why-you-need-a-reading-strategy-before-writing-anything\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-nd\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-120","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":242,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/120\/revisions\/259"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/242"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/120\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jeffersoncc-nativeamericanlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}