i have no home printer right now, so that rules that out, and considering class is once a week (wednesday nights) and the professor doesn't post the readings before class, i can't print them out easily while on campus. ::sigh:: part of me is even torn that i *HAVE* to print them out- i hate the waste of paper! sure it makes underlining and highlighting easier but what would make my world, would be the ability to go into the documents, highlight/circle/star/underline the important parts, and then go print off the final product.
i have tried having both adobe open and open office so i can type parts i find relevant and quotes (which is what we have to prepare for class: find the main points of each reading and back it up with quotes that support or even disprove the points--to be used to help facilitate in class discussion). that way, i could cut/paste the quotes from the adobe INTO my prep-work and would find summarizing/paraphrasing less taxing--i'm so hung up on the not-being-able-to-move/remove-anything-from-adobe right now. yes, a faulty quirk, i know.
why am i having such a tough time making myself just DO THE READINGS already? why is digital medium for reading texts so obnoxious? and why am i having such difficulty finding relevance this week compared to last week?????
ACK!!!!!!!
any helpful hints, post-grads???
2 comments:
i agree, digital reading assignments suck! honestly i never printed them out but i made notes if it was super-dense. but then again my classes weren't discussion-based either.
If you can't print I would recommend writing the page number, line & starting word of a quote that you want to use for discussion. (Since it's a huge pain to write it all out.) Of course, this is assuming you will have access to the readings in class (via laptop or printed later) when referring to your notes.
I hated digital readings too! Ugh. Read a page or two, do something else, and then come back for a few more.
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