Chapter 5 - How To Be A Demanding Reader Flashcards
What are the four basic questions to ask an answer, in order, during active reading?
What is the book about?
What is being said in detail, and how?
Is the book true, in whole or part?
What of it (it’s significance)?
Which of the four active reading questions tend to provide answers to which level of reading?
The first two questions, to inspectional reading
The last two questions, to analytical reading
The very last, to syntopical reading
To make a book your own, you should do what while asking/answering questions?
Write down notes.
What are the three kinds of note-making?
Structural
Conceptual
Dialectical
Which levels of reading do each note-making belong to?
Structural (structure/form) - Inspectional
Conceptual (substance) - Analytical and Syntopical
Dialectical (topic discussion between books) - Syntopical
During inspectional reading, which kind of notes can you make in the front end-papers, the title page or contents pages?
Outline/order of parts - front end-papers
What kind of book is it? - title/contents
What is the book about as a whole? - title/contents
What is the structural order, and author’s conception/understanding of the subject matter? - title/contents
During analytical reading, which kind of notes can you make in the back end-papers?
Personal index of author’s main points, in order of appearance
What kind of notes can you make within the pages of the book?
Underlining - staements
Vertical margin lines - long statements
Margin star, asterisk, other mark - 12 book main points
Margin point numbers - sequences of points
Margin page numbers (Cf) - comparing/referring points
Circling key words/phrases
Top/bottom margin - Analytical questions/answers
What must be done with active reading questions/answers and note-making in order to become effective with them?
Form as a habit
