As I try to give an assessment or an evaluation to the levels of reading, note taking and writing capacity, I come to terms with the thought there are correlations between my reading, note-taking, and writing essays abilities. Generally speaking, we could say that writing skills would improve by not only writing, but the practice of writing, meaning keep doing it while paying attention to what needs improve and keep improving it. And the quality of writing depends on materials obtained through note taking and readings. And since most materials nowadays is obtain through media, reading would be the main avenue to improve my writing skills and quality.<\/p>\n
From my upbringing and my early years through my adulthood, I learned better my doing, doing it! In my early college years, I enrolled in programs that you are taught to work; something like 40% book learning and 60% hands on learning. I also went through apprenticeship program where the in-classroom learning is like about 6-8 hours a week, while working in the field is 40-45 hours per week. Even right out of high school, I went to a bible school where we went out on outreach ministries almost twice a month during weekends. It could be that what I went through growing up that influence the way that I learn better in my latter years in life, or maybe that is just the way it is easier for me to learn.<\/p>\n
Among the valuable lessons that I have gathered from Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, there are certain approaches to reading certain types of materials such like: practical books, imaginative literature, reading stories, plays, poems, history, science and mathematics, philosophy, and social science. What I gathered from this is that by understanding the natures and contexts of these types of reading gives us ways to understand more clearly. These makes me think that maybe the reason why I like learning by doing is that I like reading practical books. Practical books are easy to understand and easy to follow; not a lot of thinking work involves. Therefore, I need to work hard and a lot on my learning to learn skills so I can be able to learn from different types of learning materials and to be able to understands their natures and contexts.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing that more than one book is relevant to a particular question is the first requirement in any project of synoptical reading. Knowing which books should be read, in general way, is the second requirement. The second requirement is a great harder to satisfy that the first (Adler & Van Doren).\u201d Even though I do not know much about this \u201csynoptical reading\u201d by now, this phrase sounds really well in giving a guidance in researching or learning from reading or absorbing relevant information through reading. To read more than one book on the subject and to know what kind of books to read is a good lesson to remember.<\/p>\n
To close it out, I would like to share \u201cThe Five Steps in Synoptical Reading,\u201d by Adler & Van Doren. Following are the five steps: (1.) Finding the Relevant Passages, (2.) Bringing the Authors to Terms, (3.) Getting the Questions Clear, (4.) Defining the Issues, and (5.) Analyzing the Discussions. I wrote this as something I would like to understand more to assists me in my endeavor to learn more on how to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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