How to Mark Your Textbook

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How to Mark Your Textbook

• Ida Hoelscher
• Title III
• Sul Ross State University

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Pre Semester Review

• A general framework
• Key Parts of Textbook
• Title
• Front back cover info
• Authors biographical data
• Publication Data
• Table of Contents
• Introduction or Preface
• Index
• Glossary

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Before Class Preview

• At the beginning of each chapter look over
• Title
• Introduction
• Sub-headings
• First sentences of each paragraph
• Any diagrams, charts, etc.
• Conclusions or summaries

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Why????

• Better comprehension
• You decide what is important
• How ideas are related
• Test your understanding
• You concentrate better because you read actively
  rather than passively
• Review tool
• Markings can trigger recall

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When?

• Start marking your book AFTER you have read part
  of it.
• Then you can decide whats important.
• Mark after reading every few paragraphs.

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Actively

• Use your margins to summarize key ideas
• Write comments.
• Make connections to lectures, other readings, etc.

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Economically

• Underline as little as possible.
• Underline key phrases (subjects, verbs, etc.)
• Underline whole sentences occasionally.
• Ask yourself, What will this page look like a
  month from now, when Im reviewing it.

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Consistently

• Make sure you locate all significant ideas,
  details, etc.
• Numbering them helps to remember.
• Use various marks - brackets, circles, etc. -
  consistently (for instance, you may choose to
  circle all new terms).

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Romes cultural legacy (5)1. Preserve G.K.
cult.2. Professions

• The Romans have left us a great deal. It is
  broadly true that in the arts, in literature, and
  in philosophy, the Romans were imitators of the
  Greeks rather than the originators. They did
  preserve much of what the Greeks had done. In
  law, in engineering, both civil and military, and
  in architecture what they did was never wholly
  lost to their European successors.

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a.3. Latin b.
c.

• Their language remained for over a thousand
  years after the fall of the empire the medium for
  all formal culture in the European west above
  all, it remained the lingua franca for the Roman
  Catholic Church. Until only yesterday, Latin was
  an inescapable part of all higher education in
  the European west. Today, it is embedded in all
  western tongues, even in German, and most
  certainly in English, as the carrier of most of
  our cultural ideas.

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4. Thought (shaped by language)5. eg.
of Roman peace

• We think as we do, in part at least, because of
  the way Caesar, Cicero, and thousands of other
  forgotten Romans thought. And as heirs of four
  hundred years of nationalistic and religious
  wars, we can never quite get the example of the
  Roman Peace out of our minds. Really need
  to learn Latin?!