To start, I would say that these readings help me to gather my\u00a0 thoughts and to point me in the direction that I needed to go. In gathering myself to start this blogging is like trying to start a car with dead battery, but anyway I guess if I just start writing something I might stumble unto something, that would be a way of encouraging me to start something.<\/p>\n
For my self-assessment in my reading, taking notes and writing essays, I needed\u00a0 a lot of work, discipline and a lot of areas to improve. If I have to read to get through chapters, it would be like just reading without getting or understanding what I read. Let alone to read more than a book in week? With this I would just have to stare at the book without even reading it; it is so taunting. So when I read the pages from the book by Mr. Adler (How to Read a Book: The Ultimate Guide by Mortimer Adler), it give me some ideas that I would like to use to improve not only my reading but my reading comprehension as well. From the \u201cFour Levels of Reading,\u201d Inspection reading and Analytical reading can be used to preview the book for its content and to quickly read through it while understanding it respectively.<\/p>\n
With regards to taking notes, I try to control myself from \u201cover-highlighting\u201d pages; which indicates the need to improve my notetaking skill. \u00a0I selectively read through the assigned book, \u201cHow to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking,\u201d and watched the video on Vimeo (both by Ahren Sonke) and I still did not really grasp the exact guidelines on how to take smart notes. However, one of the takeaway that I got from Sonke is when he mentioned that the notes that were taken are guidelines in which we the reader expands upon. It is something like you\/I read it, understand it, applied it and ask the question of what else can we do with it or what else that it does not said that is needed to be said.<\/p>\n
In writing the essays, I would say it is the fruition of the combination of the ability to absorbed reading materials (or viewed materials) and the ability to expands on the information noted. Therefore, the quality of the essay depends on the levels of the readings and the note taking and a thoughtful process as well. And this leads to the content of the third reading which is critical thinking. The third reading is the \u201cThe Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools,\u201d by Paul and Elder. On page 19 (digital format) under the Universal Intellectual Standards lists the following as essential elements to effective thinking or critical thinking: clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance and depth. Why am I listing them and not expanding on them? These are agreeable guidelines toward critical thinking.<\/p>\n
Edward Glaeser, a professor of Economics at Harvard University, wrote this in the Forbes magazines, \u201cThe ability to think critically, as conceived in this volume, involves three things: (1.) An attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one\u2019s experiences, (2.) Knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning, and (3.) Some skill in applying those methods. In short, the ability to think critically is the art of analyzing and evaluating data for a practical approach to understand the data, then determining what to believe and how to act (Chris Cebollero, April 20, 2018).\u201d Basically on the same note, critical thinking is the process of taking notes of what is available, digesting and making the application or expand upon it.<\/p>\n
With that being said, I do feel the need to shape in these following areas to help me survive this process: (a.) reading and digesting it, (b.) absorbing important notes and be able to expand on them, and (c.) adding critical thinking skills while doing a and b.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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