{"id":14648,"date":"2017-10-19T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/?p=14648"},"modified":"2017-10-19T15:03:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T22:03:16","slug":"i-really-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/i-really-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"I really don’t know…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“For many students essay-writing is the bane of their lives.\u00a0 They question the usefulness of essays, make heavy weather of writing them, and generally try to put off the task for as long as they can get away with it” [1]\u00a0 This is how I felt about Derek Rowntree’s book,\u00a0Learn How to Study: A Programmed Introduction to Better Study Techniques.<\/em>\u00a0 I really did not want to read another “How To” book, I feel like I need to read something else to qualify my time spent.\u00a0 That being said, there are things in this book that are worth the reading.\u00a0 You just have to be willing to look for the nuggets.<\/p>\n

Chapter three.\u00a0How to tackle a textbook,\u00a0<\/em>is one of the nuggets I found.\u00a0 lI do realize we have read two books on this subject but Rowntree’s treatment was worth the time.\u00a0 “Clearly, you just haven’t go time to read everything<\/em>” [2]\u00a0 This is the truth in our journey through\u00a0 LGP as elite 8 (sounds a bit narcissistic but hey whatever fits right).\u00a0 If we tried to read everything in every book we are assigned, every book or journal article we need for our dissertations, our Time Table [3] would be filled with nothing but reading.\u00a0 There would be no more time left for ministry, sermon preparation, families, or just plain down time.\u00a0 Following the idea of a time table, timing is an important aspect Rowentree covered which can be an effective use of this book.\u00a0 There is only a limited number of hours per week 168 to be precise.\u00a0 In trying to figure out our use of time, the author gives us examples, such as seen on page 17.\u00a0 You have sleep for 56 hours, eating 21 hours, travel 12 hours, classes 24 hours and regular recreation of 20 hours for a total of 133 hours, which leaves 35 hours to study.[4]\u00a0 Of course, this is for a full time student with no family, add in 60 hours for work, 20 hours spent with family, another 20 thrown in for miscellaneous activities and now we have to figure out how to stuff 268 hours worth of stuff into 168 hours.\u00a0 A daunting task I know but we can do it!<\/p>\n

So you may be asking yourself, how does one stuff one hundred extra hours into a week.\u00a0 That’s the point of learning how to read effectively.\u00a0 If a student can cut off hours by not reading a book, instead the student skims, finds ideas and other useful things to use out of a book, then the time can be cut.\u00a0 The three or so hours to read a book that is approximately 20o pages long, and has aspects of things you already have studied can be squeezed into an hour of skimming and writing.\u00a0 There I just saved you 3-4 hours.\u00a0 Do this on a macro level and you will find yourself with extra time on your hand and wondering what else you could do to fill the boredom with.<\/p>\n

I know this has been hashed over before in our books but the three approaches to a text were well put.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0tasting:<\/em> referring to isolated passages of the text.<\/p>\n

2.swallowing:\u00a0<\/em>skimming lightly and rapidly through the whole text.<\/p>\n

3.chewing and digesting:<\/em> studying the whole text carefully with close attention. [5]<\/p>\n

There will be some things we will read which call for a carefully reading of the whole text.\u00a0 An example of this would be our reading on apartheid.\u00a0 Without reading the text, I do not think I would have been ready to see and hear the things we were exposed to in Cape Town.\u00a0 There will be some readings where reading the whole text would not be as important, but to find what we need from that book or article to satisfy what was intended for us to learn.\u00a0 An example could possibly be the book we read before this book,\u00a0How to Talk About A Book You Have Not Read<\/em>.\u00a0 There were plenty of chapters to write an entire essay on without having read the whole book.\u00a0 This is not to say you did not have to the the whole book, but if necessary you could have picked different sections to write on.\u00a0 Then there will be books where just skimming along, finding something remotely interesting and trying to put together one thousand words on it to satisfy the requirements given to us by Dr. Jason Clark and the staff of Portland Seminary have chosen to give us.<\/p>\n

It was good to see the SQ3R discussed again.\u00a0 I do not feel I adequately understood it when it was discussed in our advance in Cape Town.\u00a0 That is, it was covered well but to have a source of the material will be helpful in the months to come.\u00a0 Being able to survey a book correctly and to be able to get what we need in an efficient way is helpful.\u00a0 I especially appreciated\u00a0 Rowentree going through an aspect of SQ3R with his own book.[6]\u00a0 In all likelihood, this will be a chapter I will refer back to throughout the next three years.<\/p>\n

I know that it may seem to some as if I have been cryptic on whether I enjoyed this book or not.\u00a0 Well I will leave that up to you dear reader.\u00a0 There are some things in life left better unsaid.\u00a0 Such as “Do I look older with all the grey in my beard and hair?”\u00a0 That question like this one is probably left unanswered.\u00a0 There are times where we can discuss the merit of the book we have read, and there are some times when the better question is “How is life treating you, and how are you doing?”\u00a0 Otherwise, enjoy the adventure we have set before us and use the materials we have been given to further our quest God has been gracious enough to put us on.<\/p>\n

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[1<\/a>]\u00a0Derek Rowntree,\u00a0Learn How to Study: A Programmed Introduction to Better Study Techniques<\/em>\u00a0(London: Macdonald, 1986),65.<\/p>\n

[2] Ibid. 39.<\/p>\n

[3] Ibid. 23.<\/p>\n

[4] Ibid. 17.<\/p>\n

[5] Ibid. 39-40.<\/p>\n

[6] Ibid. 43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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