247 Hesburgh Library, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
This workshop demonstrates a technique for writing in books for the purpose of "active reading." The only reason one has been taught not to write in books is because the books were literally valuable and intended to be shared. With the advent to so many things "born digital," it is possible to download, print, and bind one's own books or sets of journal articles. Such things have little monetary value and are certainly not intended to be shared. Through an active reading process — the writing in books — one can review, retain, and comprehend so much more with a single pass over a text.
Akin to diagramming sentences, the techniques described in this workshop enable you to quickly and easily identify names, dates, definitions, numbers, citations, examples, bulleted lists, numbered lists, quotes, hyperlinks, items of questionable authority, and items of interest in any printed material that can be marked with a pencil or pen.
Open to all graduate and undergraduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff.