PATTERNS FOR READING

When reading it is important to ready the eyes, calm them down for comprehending. It seems that cones and rods need to be stilled a little and, for me, the rod bundles or “epouges”, which from excitement, contribute to text jumping. Just tune them to the reading process, actually telling them out loud to focus works to coordinate them.

PATTERNS FOR READING

Presented position with and without recognized bias can be bettered when one observes spin of self and other, even author. Notice spin as, and compared to, one's own point of view, and in life in general.

Tone poem: skipping around the text for key words.

Skimming: quickly scanning the text to get an idea.

Reading: investigating the text and trying to conceptualize the meaning that the author intended to impart. This includes looking up to define unfamiliar words, reading each word in its proper sequence, and maybe reading aloud to affect more senses.

Close reading: includes all the above techniques, and also striving to imagine what else the author could be writing about. Making notes to support re-reading and reference. Making connection to other writing and phenomena, within the text and also outside the boundaries of the text, to help understand a larger community of thoughts. Making cultural observations, noticing absences, contradictions, and similarities. Considering how other language may be induced into the meaning process. Noting language relationships like alliteration, rhyming, repetition, symbolism. Asking questions and looking for evidences that can provide answers. Recording feelings, predictions and evaluations you have of the text.

  

For more context on epouges see this blog February 1, 2011.