Reading Log
ENGLISH 090 BASIC COMPOSITION: CRITCAL LITERACY
The Reading Writing Connection & College Success
READING LOG
Successful college students spend many hours each week reading a variety of texts including common textbooks, journal articles, source documents and assignment guides. Additionally, daily exposure to print, radio/television, online/internet, and other media requires “reading” and understanding information presented in many different formats. Advertising, news, entertainment, and online social media use audio, video, and multimedia formats, and these diverse formats often appear in combination with one another. Keeping track of all this information is quite difficult for most, so ENG 090 students learn to use a note-taking tool called a reading log to help them keep track of what they read.
The READING LOG has an important role in this course, and it has implications for success in all college courses as well. The Reading Log is designed to help you methodically
* Prepare mentally for your reading activities,
* Record notes for inquiry and recall, and
* Reflect upon what you have read.
The Reading Log provides both direction and structure for collecting ideas; for noticing the structure of presentations, speeches, and arguments; for asking questions and engaging in a conversation with a text; and for gathering information that will help in evaluating an author’s/speaker’s/director’s claims, evidence, and/or conclusions. You will use Reading Log to collect notes and information that will help you
* Understand what is said in a text;
* Understand what is meant in a text;
* Participate in class discussions,
* Construct college essays in which you take a position and support it with evidence and sound reasoning, and
* Study for quizzes and tests.
And the Reading Log will work for many other academic and study purposes.
The Reading Log provides a space for collecting new vocabulary that you encounter in a text, a tool that will help
The Reading Writing Connection & College Success
READING LOG
Successful college students spend many hours each week reading a variety of texts including common textbooks, journal articles, source documents and assignment guides. Additionally, daily exposure to print, radio/television, online/internet, and other media requires “reading” and understanding information presented in many different formats. Advertising, news, entertainment, and online social media use audio, video, and multimedia formats, and these diverse formats often appear in combination with one another. Keeping track of all this information is quite difficult for most, so ENG 090 students learn to use a note-taking tool called a reading log to help them keep track of what they read.
The READING LOG has an important role in this course, and it has implications for success in all college courses as well. The Reading Log is designed to help you methodically
* Prepare mentally for your reading activities,
* Record notes for inquiry and recall, and
* Reflect upon what you have read.
The Reading Log provides both direction and structure for collecting ideas; for noticing the structure of presentations, speeches, and arguments; for asking questions and engaging in a conversation with a text; and for gathering information that will help in evaluating an author’s/speaker’s/director’s claims, evidence, and/or conclusions. You will use Reading Log to collect notes and information that will help you
* Understand what is said in a text;
* Understand what is meant in a text;
* Participate in class discussions,
* Construct college essays in which you take a position and support it with evidence and sound reasoning, and
* Study for quizzes and tests.
And the Reading Log will work for many other academic and study purposes.
The Reading Log provides a space for collecting new vocabulary that you encounter in a text, a tool that will help