Deep Reading
Published on Aug 19, 2018
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Deep Work
Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTaJhjQHcf8
After you watch this video, before you move on to the next slide, create a deep work environment for the next 15 minutes.
Deep Learning
Engaging with our whole self
Treasuring the text: Get into a positive mindset, reflecting on the privilege you have of being in college, at Taylor. Thank God for giving you a mind to think and process. Pray for God to help your mind and heart to understand.
Emotionally engaging the ideas
Intellectual curiosity
Passion—for the ideas in the text, for your identities/passions that connect to the text, and/or for your responses to the text
Make Connections -- to these ideas from your own experiences, prior knowledge
Declare that you will be able to understand.
Emotionally engaging the ideas
Intellectual curiosity
Passion—for the ideas in the text, for your identities/passions that connect to the text, and/or for your responses to the text
Make Connections -- to these ideas from your own experiences, prior knowledge
Declare that you will be able to understand.
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Engage Your Mind
- Be open-minded
- Look for claims and note the author's support for the claims.
- Apply prior knowledge Actively connect with the text
- Actively connect with the text
1. Remember that each of us only has our perspective; thus, we need diverse people to engage with in order to access to the best ideas and most accurate understanding of truths.
2. Locate the author's claims for each paragraph or section, and then look for how the author supports that claim: facts, data, examples, logic, other sources.
3. Think about what you already know about the topic or claim in order to make connections between what you know and the new claim or claim support you read.
4. Constantly search for connections: from ideas from other classes or texts, personal experiences, etc.
2. Locate the author's claims for each paragraph or section, and then look for how the author supports that claim: facts, data, examples, logic, other sources.
3. Think about what you already know about the topic or claim in order to make connections between what you know and the new claim or claim support you read.
4. Constantly search for connections: from ideas from other classes or texts, personal experiences, etc.
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Deep Reading Process
- Write out the rhetorical situation of the text.
- Pay attention to textual signs: topic sentences, examples, and transition words; introduction and section headings.
- Write annotations as you read.
Rhetorical situation:
- Context for the text (date of publication, type of journal, recent discussions).
- audience the author was writing to (other experts, teachers, students, researchers)
- genre of the text (essay, argument, exposition)
- the author's main purpose (inform, persuade, inquire, prompt reconsideration, etc.)
- role the author is playing in the text (e.g., expert, co-learner, researcher, friendly guide)
- Context for the text (date of publication, type of journal, recent discussions).
- audience the author was writing to (other experts, teachers, students, researchers)
- genre of the text (essay, argument, exposition)
- the author's main purpose (inform, persuade, inquire, prompt reconsideration, etc.)
- role the author is playing in the text (e.g., expert, co-learner, researcher, friendly guide)
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