[nabs-l] Working Closely with Text

[Sydney Walker Freedman]

I may put markings in a Braille document when using a Braille display,
but generally, I take notes, writing out the important bits (rather
than highlighting &c.) and citing the page number.

Sydney

On 1/13/09, Brice Smith <brsmith2424 at gmail.com> wrote:
> My required Academic Writing and Research instructor has asked the
> class to read closely rather than widely; in other words, to dig deep
> within a text instead of skim-reading or reading many documents.
>
> One way to do this, according to the instructor, is to read the work
> several times, and then read again, underlining, marking, and
> highlighting important words, phrases, or sentences within the
> document. By the time you're done, the printed document should have
> many colors and markings through it.
>
> Not only does this style deviate from what I'm used to (working with
> and utilizing ten or twenty documents over a small amount of time),
> but I'm a bit curious as to your experiences with marking and
> underlining through a text. How do you read closely? You could
> possibly do this with Braille, but only you could see it and that's
> not the current goal of this exercise. Electronic text seems tedious,
> but it might be a decent option. My teacher's suggestion was to use a
> tape recorder, to read through the text and then speak important
> phrases or words into the recorder -- but this seems distracting.
>
> so how do you work closely with a text? When given a document, do you
> highlight and mark through it, underlining key words and phrases? Or
> do you simply read and hope to retain the information?
>
> - Brice
>
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