Summary "Writing at University (p.51-57)"

SAHNAZ YUNIAR FADMANGARA

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    Reading as Part of Writing

To improve your writing through reading we can do an approaching reading, choosing your reading for an assignment, working with your reading, thinking about the different text, reading and note taking, making mind maps from reading, keeping records, making meaning through reading and reading your own and other students' work. These steps will help you to discover new ways of tackling the reading that you have to do for your studies.

Firstly, by approaching reading, in reading we are familiar with skim-read, managing densely written so it is easier to read, but actually, skim-read is not always made easier it is not a useful strategy for reading as a student, in some circumstances may well be used, for example, skimming through a newspaper article, or skipping through a novel. You may also be used to skim-reading when you’re surfing the Internet. So now, instead of skim-reading you will be developing ways of concentrating on large chunks of quite dense text and making sense of them. Even though you may only be concentrating for short bursts of time, it is likely that you will find it necessary to concentrate more intensely than you usually do when you are reading.

Secondly, choosing your reading for an assignment, some students may have difficulties choosing their reading for analyzing their assignment with their unknowledge they choose inappropriately and end up with a not suitable answer for their question, it was really important for us to choose the right book. You can do is to consult the reading list for books and articles and do a library search.

Thirdly, working with reading, most students have the same difficulties one is struggling with the ways in which things are written and the other is the length of time that things can take to read, and they are surprised to repeat reading the same material but actually in academic themselves it necessary to ‘repeat-read’ articles and books, By doing it, it will help you to understand the content so you will get more information in it.

Last, thinking about the different texts, If you can see why you find reading a particular article, chapter or book difficult – in other words, what it is about the text and your reading of it that makes it hard – then you are halfway to solving the problem. Think again about why a particular piece of reading seems difficult. For example, you may disagree with the ideas expressed in the text and therefore become irritated or bored when reading it. If this happens try to use the text constructively. Examine what it is that you do not like about the text. Sometimes you will find yourself having to read a text that you just do not get on with because it is essential reading.

Reference
Creme, Phyllis., & R. Lea, Mary. (2008). Writing at University: A Guide for Students Third Edition. Open University Press.