From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Feb 2 16:07:22 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l12L7MeF010156 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:07:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (upfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.4.140]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l12L7D8s080949 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:07:13 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 21139 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2007 21:07:13 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 2 Feb 2007 21:07:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 21102 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2007 21:07:12 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 2 Feb 2007 21:07:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 29045 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2007 21:07:06 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 2 Feb 2007 21:07:06 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3092686 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:07:06 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 3263 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2007 21:07:06 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 2 Feb 2007 21:07:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 11665 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2007 21:07:04 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 2 Feb 2007 21:07:04 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l12L736m010139 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:07:03 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l12L73Im010138 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:07:03 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702022107.l12L73Im010138@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:07:03 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: READING JOURNALS To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2517/Fri Feb 2 11:47:59 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 2184 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: READING JOURNALS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My colleague Michael Kibby, who teaches reading in the Department of Learning & Instruction, devised this list of generic questions to ask oneself while doing active reading. I offer them merely as suggestions to help you get started with your Reading Journals. ======================================================================== Mental Marginalia ======================================================================== courtesy of Prof. Michael W. Kibby slightly modified by Prof. William J. Rapaport ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Predicting OK, now the next thing the author will say is..... 2. Visualizing What does this look like? How does that go with? 3. Confirming Yes. That is what I thought the author would say. 4. Ah ha Ah ha! Now I know what the author meant by that. 5. Significance Yes, this is important -- more important than.... 6. Organizing Let's see...there are three major points in this unit; first, . 7. Relations/Intertextual Connection Oh, this is more information about.... 8. Whoops Oh, oh. I thought the writer mean....but that's not right. 9. Finding and Expecting There it is! 10. Anaphora Who (what) was the writer talking about? 11. Summarizing Let's see, first..., then..., and last.... 12. Questioning What does the author mean by that? 13. Commenting Wow. That is amazing! 14. Evaluating This does not make sense, because....(*) 15. Associating knowledge and text Oh, that was like..... 16. Veracity How does the writer know that? 17. Disagreeing I think the writer is wrong about this. 18. Know it Yeah, I already knew this. 19. Didn't know it That's something I didn't know before. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (*) I [WJR] added the "because"; as a philosopher and scientist, I think it's important not merely to disagree, but to say *why* you disagree.