Interacting with the Author's Thoughts

Our reading, understanding and learning are mental process that produce thoughts that we think.
 
Think.
What are you using to think? You think using thoughts that you learnt, understood and heard or read.
 
Our thoughts are fed by others’ thoughts.
In the case of a book, the author feeds us with his/her thought for us to:
Read? Understand? Learn?
Think?

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As readers & students, our goal is to interact with the author’s thinking.
In this interaction, our minds reconstruct the author’s thinking. 

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Our interaction takes place through a process of inner dialogue with the statements of the text, assessing each statement for its intelligibility and questioning in a disciplined way.

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Our interaction takes place through a process of inner dialogue with the statements of the text, assessing each statement for its intelligibility and questioning in a disciplined way. 

•Can I summarize the meaning of the author’s words in my own words?
•Can I give examples from my own experience as the author is giving his examples? 
•Can I generate my own metaphors and diagrams to illustrate what the author is saying?

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•As we can tell, the more we engage with the author´s thoughts, the more our thoughts expand and connect to previous thoughts (knowledge and experience).
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•Our engagement works as a networking device to our stored knowledge and permits more learning (storing knowledge and developing abilities).


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