... experience of collecting quotes from various articles and books read in class. It helped me understand and have my own approach to all the topics discussed in the classroom. I was the author of my own thoughts. I picked out quotes that related to me or that I felt really highly about. Instead of taking dialectical notes, I wrote paragraphs on how the topic affected me ... many readings in a short period of time. But if there is an organized way of reading and writing it is a lot easier. And that is what the journal summations did for me. I was organized and well read. To me, this was a ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... re-read the two pieces of literature that I would need for this paper and even make notes on them in the margins of the text. I am proud of myself for not waiting till the last minuet on that, but am a bit confused on the notes I made in the margins next to each piece. I ... in the business world. Kempe's book is said to be "the spiritual autobiography of a medieval laywoman, telling of her struggles to carry out instructions for a holy life that she claimed to have received in personal visions from Christ and the Virgin Mary" (366). Kempe's character is a prime example ... If Margery K...

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• Grade Level: High School

... minimum to get by in each class. As a writer, I usually copied word for word out of books or magazines to write my papers. Now that I"m in college I want to learn and do the best that I can for my money. I've learned many different reading techniques to help me understand literature better ... since junior high. Throughout my high school career I didn't pay attention when my class read aloud out of the textbook, or read required literature for book reports. The only thing I read regularly was the newspaper. In the past two years, the only time I wrote was when my classmates would ... ha...

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• Grade Level: High School