Reading the Reader | Academic Commons - 6 views
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The heart of Critical Inquiry is annotation. Students annotate anything they feel is important, confusing, surprising, or inconsistent; anything that connects to previous texts, classes or experiences, or anything that generates a strong positive or negative response. Students annotate with pen or sticky notes. Using their annotations, students generate questions. These form the basis for class discussion and assignments. This process is particularly productive with “inconsiderate texts”--texts that are difficult for reasons such as poor organization, difficult vocabulary, or unfamiliar cultural assumptions, i.e., the type of texts often encountered in their studies.
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Sean Nash on 15 Mar 11For me, this paragraph alone provides enough impetus to push for an embrace of smart annotation across curricula...
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Connie Weidmaier on 15 Mar 11students have a hard time critically thinking on the MAP - difficult vocabulary, unfamiliar context
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Reading is the active construction of meaning.
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e is no inherent meaning in the words or marks themselves, meaning can only arise at the nexus of what the reader brings
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Reading is the active construction of meaning. Because there is no inherent meaning in the words or marks themselves, meaning can only arise at the nexus of what the reader brings to the text, the text, and the situation within which the text is placed.
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Reading is the active construction of meaning. Because there is no inherent meaning in the words or marks themselves, meaning can only arise at the nexus of what the reader brings to the text, the text, and the situation within which the text is placed.
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Reading is the active construction of meaning. Because there is no inherent meaning in the words or marks themselves, meaning can only arise at the nexus of what the reader brings to the text, the text, and the situation within which the text is placed.