I was a late bloomer when it comes to reading. I did not take to reading very well or very much until middle school, and didn\u2019t take to writing very well until my Undergrad. But it seems that the techniques of linear writing processes were at odds with the way my brain is wired.<\/p>\n
In completing a Masters degree just 1.5 years ago, what I loved most was the rhythm and discipline of learning, not simply from digesting lectures and writings, but from the interactive peer-learning. I describe this as \u2018having used lung capacity I hadn\u2019t in a while\u2019. So, I\u2019m grateful for recent experience of interacting with materials and making connection and contrasts between them. In interacting with Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren\u2019s framing, my assessment is that I have a basic foundation of \u201ccatching every sort of communication\u201d to build on. Although I have not used the language of syntopical reading, I have a growing ability to lean into the interplay between various authors and ideas. This shows up in how I share those ideas with others in conversations and writings, but I look forward to deepening my abilities, starting with better note-taking.<\/p>\n
Up until now, I have limited my note-taking to a gathering of quotes from books, without incorporating any of my own analysis, categorization, or defining of issues. I take up this challenge: I now embark on a new note-taking era. As I highlight and interact with ideas from various authors, I am beginning to align my notes and improve my tags, but the new discipline will be to make smarter notes, using my note-taking as my thought process, and honing my craft of developing tags that focus on what I glean.<\/p>\n
I confess that without a good note system, I have been reluctant to write, or afraid of the blank page, feeling that it would add a lot of additional work to my routine. I would also relay that my critical thinking has often led to verbal articulation rather than writing practices. So I\u2019m left with a simple but extraordinary challenge – take the other fork in the road. How might I extend my critical thinking to the page<\/em>, adapting critical self-discipline and self-awareness already taken from input-to-brain-to-mouth,<\/em> and start applying it to written record? <\/span>I am truly confident that my Doctoral work will grow my capacity to write as a more natural and regular part of the rhythm of my life, and I am relieved to come to terms with how I have been doing this verbally, so that I might adapt and build on my strengths, rather than feel that I\u2019m starting from scratch.<\/p>\n So, I am here for it! I am here to learn from you, together with you, and as we have been asked to do, to trust the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was a late bloomer when it comes to reading. I did not take to reading very well or very much until middle school, and didn\u2019t take to writing very well until my Undergrad. But it seems that the techniques of linear writing processes were at odds with the way my brain is wired. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cohort-dlgp03"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34681"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34782,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34681\/revisions\/34782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}