Chapter 46 covers information for writing about texts such as essays, articles, books, advertisements, and photographs. It helps to explain different types of texts and what they are by easily breaking down the text's content. Chapter 46 shows how to summarize our thoughts and ideas between our emotions, reactions and analysis by demonstrating our understanding about the main points which gives us useful hints for reading and writing.
I learned how to read actively from this chapter, how to take notes on questions and thoughts and how to go back and outline with a pencil instead of a highlighter by circling points and writing in margins. A pencil allows you to erase and change ideas and thoughts, unlike a highlighter you’re stuck with the illuminated text once you highlighted an area. I did this in this chapter after I read this instruction and realized it worked quite well for me.
The other suggestion for note taking that I thought would work quite well for me, as I love to take notes but find more times than not they are all over the paper and unorganized, is by setting up an outline. This outline would highlight key points of the text and I would probably have to re-read the text when using this method, which is a suggestion I would make anyway because I always feel it is a good way to catch things you may have missed in the first reading.
Lastly, writing a summary is basically just showing your understanding of the text and the main ideas you gathered from the reading. You correctly begin writing a summary with a title and continue by writing it in third person as chapter 46 suggests.
This was a very useful exercise and I plan to use the techniques to help write concise and efficient papers as the semester goes on. I learned many useful tools of writing and reading to take with me for future use making reading and writing much more simple and concise.
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