Chapter 3: Processes & Reading Strategies

This week we did two reading one on processes and one on reading strategies both are important not only in college but in life. The section on processes was important because it gave tips on going through the process of writing any type of paper. From asking questions of what the purpose of whatever you're reading to editing and proofreading. I enjoy this book because of the fact that although it gives you all these different tips the authors aren't saying you either do it this way or you fail; they're just saying ideas that might help to make the process easier. It gives you advice for working on a paper by yourself and working a group which I found interesting and insightful. I thought it was interesting the part where it talked about everyone facing each other because the conversation works better, which is probably why are class is set up that way. I also found it interesting how this section talked about how keeping a journal and a blog is a good way to get out your opinions and thoughts. Most people look at journal as being written by silly love sick high school girls, when in reality they are quite useful. I also like how they listed as the different pre-writing strategies showing that certain ways work better for certain people and although most people by the time they get to college they know what there's is it gave new ideas to experiment with, or if you hadn't it was there to help you figure it out. Then of course it talk about how even though you have all these tools you need to find out how, where and when you work best so that you will write better quality work. Growing up you find out what your system is, mine for instance is being in a quiet atmosphere but depending on what I'm writing I may listen to music. The Reading Strategies section was helpful because although we did have to read textbooks and other material in high school I hadn't really found a good reading strategies and this section had some good tips that I'll try to keep in mind and imply in my future readings that will help in reading and doing assignments based on it and also in retaining more of what I'm reading. I know that although this class will be presenting me with a lot of new information it is useful and will help me both now and in the future.