Directions: Summarize your experience with the three-read process of the Anne Lamott text (not what you learned, but how the process helped you read this text, and might help you read other texts in the future). If the process did not help your comprehension of the Lamott text, please state so, but summarize why you did not benefit from this method of reading and what you might do in the future to help with text comprehension. The post should not state emotion or opinion about either the text or the three-read process, but should, instead, concentrate on explaining the experience objectively. Your reply should be no longer than 200 words. (Due before class on June 4th)
Reply: Comment on a classmate's ability to relate his/her experience in the fashion of a summary. If you believe s/he wrote more of a narrative/analysis than a summary, make one suggestion for what s/he might do for his/her summary for the Davidson text. Your response needs to be at least three sentences long, and must contain constructive criticism. (Due June 8th by 5pm)
Stay professional with your posts. Also, remember that this is a community forum. Take what your classmates say with a grain of salt, but also take advantage of the crowd-sourcing.
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ReplyDeleteWhat I found in the three-read process is that I could find certain meanings in a sentence that I missed the first time through the text. I could also remember what I had thought of that sentence or paragraph before I read the text for the second or third time, it could change or support what I had thought about it before.
ReplyDeleteI also found that I might skip parts of the text that I had read slowly the first two times. So the three-read process would help me find the general idea the first time through the text. Some of the more obscure sentence meanings on the second time through and some new meanings the third and last time through it.
If the text is more than 20 to 30 pages it might be hard to use the three-read process, it would be easier to take some notes on the first and second time through. If it was more than 70 pages and I was short on time read it very thoroughly once with a large amount of notes. If there happened to be a more appropriate amount of time and the text wasn't too long I would most likely read it at least twice.
I think in all you have a pretty good understanding of the process and how to make it work to your advantage. I too find myself missing a lot of the meaning of the text the first time I read it. Maybe writing down key phrases that stand out on the first reading of the text would help you go even further.
DeleteMy experience with the three-read process was most definitely successful. While reading “shitty first drafts” by Anne Lomatt, I used this new skill to get the basic idea and eventually comprehend and analyze the entire text. The first step, or first read, should usually just be a quick skim allowing you to get an idea of what to expect. This might be useful if you are going to come back to the article at another time, but I didn’t really like skipping around and rushing through. The second read should be more thorough. You will get a lot more out of the text; I read over many parts that I first overlooked. It seemed like I had a different or better understanding of the main idea than I did after the first read. Highlighting or making footnotes are probably necessary if it is more than a couple pages. After the second read, I could easily figure out the audience and gist of the excerpt. The third read should be an analysis of the text and any notes that you took reading it. This will be helpful when I write a summary. I liked the three-read process because I found that using it helps me internalize and remember, rather than reading it once and forgetting what I read.
ReplyDeleteMy experience with the 3-read process was very positive. This process opened my eyes to see different viewpoints of the text that I wouldn't have normally gotten. I liked it because every time you read the text you are looking for different clues in the text that helps you catch the material that you missed the first time. I Also felt not overwhelmed when reading this and using the process with it because the 3-read process is structured and organized and helped me comprehend the article as a whole. This process also helped me develop the whole meaning of some sections of the texts, it all came together after reading it three times. I think this process I will use in this class and my other classes also.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that reading and memorizing a text can be difficult. When I read your blog I didn't feel like you went into much detail about the process. Maybe next time give more detail about how the process works.
DeleteExactly, the 3 read process helped to get the full gist of "shitty first draft".Others views made it fun and hope we continue to do it for every reading for class.
DeleteThe three read process of Anne Lamott " Shittty First Draft" was very helpful. The first read was a skim and really didn't give me everything I need to know to analyze the subject discussed. The second reading gave me more incite on the style of writing Anne uses. The third read provided me with the ability to understand the writer better.The three read process is a technique I will continue to use for all of my classes. This process is a tool that applies to all subjects. Doing it in class also made it easier to get the full meaning of what I was reading. After reading it three times I still missed a few things, and if it wasn't for my classmates I probably would have missed it all together. After realizing this maybe the three read process isn't enough and I might require a four or five read process. This exercise helped me understand the process of reading something that I may need to use in the future to write a paper or essay. I actually enjoyed the three read process because It showed me that no matter how much you read something your really don't get the full gist unless you were the person who wrote it. That's why it takes more than one read to get the most out of what you are reading.
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DeleteI appreciated your honesty and actually found it pretty funny. But maybe one thing you can change is your opening sentence. You said the three-read process was helpful in the first sentence, then described how it wasn't very helpful.
The one thing that should be taken away from Anne LaMott’s-Shitty First Drafts, if anything is to not get too discouraged when trying to practice creative writing. It’s practically inevitable that the first attempt at a good essay, article, personal review, or whatever it may be, is going to be a big unorganized mess full of emotions, strong opinions and most likely the usual grammar errors. Being new to academic reading, the three- read process makes understanding Anne LaMott’s writing very simple. The first skim of her writing reveals that she is a very emotional writer with kind of a darker sense of humor. A deeper read will explain a brief history of her experiences as a creative writer and, through her own personal experience, that even a professional writer still goes through a little bit of stress and self-doubt about the quality of the first draft but that in the end, the first draft is supposed to be a jumbled clutter of anything and everything you can think of. After finishing the article, it seems pretty clear that LaMott was writing to an audience of beginner writers. Just a little bit of advice through her experience that just might fight against discouragement of creativity and writing anxiety. Overall, the three read method and Anne LaMott’s-Shitty first Drafts, present a possibility to be very helpful tools to reference to when exorcising creative writing in the future.
ReplyDeleteThe three read process is very helpful when reading a story or especially anything of importance because when a reader is going through the text of interest, not everything sticks and sometimes it’s very easy to skim over something that is going to come back up later on. By reading over the same text three times there is a better chance to grasp the entirety of the piece much better. In using the three read process personally the Lamott text the three read process, the text at first glance was a very vague description of a great writer, but after reading through the text again it became more clear that the text was more of a like a portrait I hadn’t quite had the full experience of yet, this made the third run through even better. When it came to the third go round the entire excerpt was like a huge scenery that covered mountaintop covered in powder snow with beautiful evergreen trees, and to the south there was even more scenery, looking down from the hills that had outgrown themselves, there was a city that had started with rocky beginnings but had flipped from there to become a flourishing heaven, that thrived from its people that held the inside together. This is a bit off topic now, but the point is that in the three read process the text opens up the text to the reader and allows them to read the text between the lines on the lines and everywhere in between. As for the example text, it was a very good choice to prove the purpose of the three read process it worked very well. This helped one reader to understand and wonderfully grasp a text that would have been otherwise hard to get a hold of.
ReplyDeleteI found the three-read process to be helpful when reading, "Shitty First Drafts". At a first skim of the text I found some words that I did not recognize, so the initial preview allowed me to have a little more understanding of the authors purpose of the text. Reading and rereading were also two methods that allowed me to better comprehend the text and what the author was trying to say to her audience. Overall, the three-read process can be applied to the reading of any text, and when used correctly can be a useful and affective tool.
ReplyDeleteThe three-read process always helps readers to identify words we don't know. The three read process is an important step to writing a essay.
DeleteThe three step process was pretty helpful when it came to reading "Shitty First Drafts". I wasn't to found of it at first to be honest. I didn't understand why do I need to read this three times to understand what the author is talking about. I see that know, it is very very helpful. It makes reading the material so much easier and easier to comprehend. The tools being taught with the three step process is just great for someone like me. I have a hard time reading and to break it down was terrific. Could not have ask for a better way to break it down very simple.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like you got your point across quite well about how the three-read process helped you understand the text. One thing that might help you is to go into a bit more detail about some things. Other than that I think you explained why you found it helpful thoroughly.
DeleteIn the tree-read process of the Anne Lamott text, was helpful and very informative. When I first skimmed thru the text I didn’t really pay attention to detail, all I really wanted and was looking for was the main point of the text. I found words I didn’t understand and didn’t even bother to figure out what they meant. When I read it the second time I was able to comprehend it more and I noticed things I didn’t before. I noticed word chose, the audience it was trying to reach and what the main point was. When I read it the last time I was able to fully understand the reading. I was able to have a personal opinion about it. This process showed me that in order to comprehend something thoroughly one needs to read it more than once. And in writing something it takes around the same steps it takes more than one draft before having the final one.
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