By: Chip Stapleton on October 13, 2016
Our assigned text for the week, Learn How to Study by Derek Rowntree is another in the series of assignments that might be considered ‘preparatory’ in our doctoral studies. The book takes its place with the other books we have read this semester that aimed to prepare us for our rigorous course of study by helping…
By: Katy Drage Lines on October 13, 2016
Derek Rowntree, a founding member and retired Professor of Educational Development at UK’s Open University—one of the largest universities in England and Europe—presents a “realistic approach” to studying. He suggests that what he offers is not a model, or especially, the model for studying, but rather, an opportunity to understand how we learn, how we…
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on October 12, 2016
Of all the tips I learned about studying through this latest read, the part that resonated with me the most was the process of listening when you study. Listening to: authors, presenters, lectures, different perspectives, and new information. And the results of not listening was impacting when Rowntree talked about Einstein refusing new scientific information…
By: Jim Sabella on October 12, 2016
Learn how to Study: Developing the study skills and approaches to learning that will help you succeed in university: A virtual tutorial with Professor Derek Rowntree. In short: The Egalitarian Professor’s Manual on Learning. I hope you don’t mind if I get right to the point. Don’t let the title fool you! While I sense…
By: Stu Cocanougher on October 12, 2016
Learn How to Study by Professor Derek Rowntree is more than just a book about learning. It is a “tutorial style” book that gives practical application to the material that is being presented. In short, the author wanted more than just to have his book read. Professor Rowntree wanted students to learn from his book. …
By: Lynda Gittens on October 12, 2016
STUDY ORGANIZE STRATEGIZE Do you wake up in a cold sweat, trying to be a super student? Does your bed partner include books, notebooks, pens, caffeine, computer, and chocolate trying to complete your studies? Do you find yourself sitting with a blank stare on your face? …
By: Geoff Lee on October 12, 2016
This being an eminently practical book, I will write about and respond to it in a practical and transactional way. My main take-aways and notes to self from this text are as follows: Find somewhere to study. I find my environment is very important when I am reading, writing, preparing sermons, studying. I need…
By: Mary Walker on October 11, 2016
The Reflective Student “Learning to study is essentially a do-it-yourself operation. You’ll get ideas from this book. You’ll get even more from teachers and fellow-students. But, in the end, it’s up to you. You need to be able to reflect on your own experience of studying and decide what changes of approach might best suit…
By: Christal Jenkins Tanks on October 10, 2016
During my first week in the DMIN program, I can recall my Facebook post where I said that I was “Feeling overwhelmed with everything I have going on in life right now…My superwoman cape isn’t flying so high…I need to make some adjustments to my commitments to make room for this new chapter” Why did…
By: Chip Stapleton on October 6, 2016
Through much of Pierre Bayard’s, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read I put this text alongside the other preliminary work (most notably Adler, How to Read a Book) we have been assigned as we ‘ramp up’ into the meat and serious study of our doctoral program. And to be clear, it definitely contains some helpful hints…
By: Kristin Hamilton on October 6, 2016
Taking seriously the advice of our lead mentor, Dr. Jason Clark, I read a vast number of reviews about Bayard’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, before reading the book itself. If the reviewers are to be believed, Bayard’s book is either pure satire, a serious treatise on discussing a book without reading, an offering…
By: Mary Walker on October 6, 2016
Now that we understand “How to Read a Book” we can learn how “Not to Read a Book” and still talk about it!!! What a time saver for poor, tired students! In “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read” Pierre Bayard encourages us to learn why we strive for an image of cultural literacy.…
By: Stu Cocanougher on October 6, 2016
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, by Pierre Bayard When I first looked at the title of this book which I was required to read and discuss, the irony was almost too perfect. In fact, I half expected that this was one of those books you find in novelty stores that have a…
By: Jim Sabella on October 6, 2016
How can you talk about a book without reading it? When I first started reading Bayard’s book, I wondered if this was a tongue and cheek piece with a twist of dry French humor. Or maybe Bayard is the antithesis, the mortal enemies of Adler and Van Doren? After all, Adler and Van Doren suggest…
By: Geoff Lee on October 6, 2016
“It is not the quantity that is read, but the manner of reading, that yields us profit. Those who read fast, reap no more advantage, than a bee would by only skimming over the surface of the flower, instead of waiting to penetrate into it, and extract its sweets.” (Madame Guyon – A Short…
By: Katy Drage Lines on October 4, 2016
Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability to conjure these specters—xxi I must confess at the outset of this post that Bayard convicted me of the danger of becoming too immersed into a book, thus “distancing [oneself] from…
By: Lynda Gittens on October 4, 2016
When I entered college I was introduced to the Cliff Notes. Never heard of it? Well, it was a study guide which assisted many students in addressing what a book was about without reading the entire book. The books I have read so far, I sort of wish I had cliff notes. Or should…
By: Jennifer Dean-Hill on October 2, 2016
“How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read” by Pierre Bayard The irony of a non-reading professor issuing reading assignments to his students, and authoring a book presenting non-reading techniques on how to talk about books you haven’t read, is not lost on me. As I read “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read”,…
By: Christal Jenkins Tanks on October 1, 2016
I find it very clever that the table of contents for the book How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard is structured in a way that you can skim it and understand what each chapter and section is intending to convey. It allows the reader to choose what they want to read…
By: Chip Stapleton on September 16, 2016
Like many students that have been assigned one of Sarah Pink’s books, or any like it, my first thought upon opening Doing Visual Ethnography was, ‘What is Visual or any other form of ethnography?’ Pink’s gives this definition of ethnography (34) : a methodology…. an approach to experiencing, interpreting and representing experience, culture, society and material and…
