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How to Mark a Book by Mortimer J. Adler Cornell Notes Model
How to Mark a Book by Mortimer J. AdlerCornell Notes Model
NOTICE Structure of Essay:Where does Introduction begin and
end?
Where does Body of argument writing begin and end?
Where does Body of process/exposition begin and end?
Language and Tone in “How to Mark a Book”
Par. 4.“not an act of mutilation”
Par. 6. “own a book”
Par. 7. “false reverence”
Par. 9 “false respect”
Par. 10 “soul of a book”
BASED ON THE EVIDENCE ABOVE, What does the author imply is the reason people feel strange about marking up book?
Notes: Other phrases that link up with these phrasesCUE
When all these things link up, this is an EXTEND METAPHOR
THESE ARE DELIBERATE, and they HELP YOUR READER STAY INTERESTED. . .even in the most dull of topics…like annotation.
Language and Tone in “How to Mark a Book”
Par. 4.“not an act of mutilation”
Par. 6. “own a book”
Par. 7. “false reverence”
Par. 9 “false respect”
Par. 10 “soul of a book”
BASED ON THE EVIDENCE ABOVE, What does the author imply is the reason people feel strange about marking up book?
Other phrases that link up with these phrases
THIS IS ALSO AN EXAMPLE OF CORNELL NOTES
COMPARE. . .
FINALLY… Par. 4.
“not an act of mutilation”
Par. 6. “own a book”
Par. 7. “false reverence”
Par. 9 “false respect”
Par. 10 “soul of a book”
BASED ON THE EVIDENCE ABOVE, What does the author imply is the reason people feel strange about marking up book?
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