Task 27 Fast Write

As I ponder my past history of note taking. I really cannot think of how it was. I was never a good student in high school. I went for the social aspect of it. I was lucky to get my work done. Tonight on my way home from class I had an epiphany. I was not ready for my education until now. I don't think I would have ever been the student I think I am, before this time. Ok, back to note taking. I think that the best way for me to take notes is going to be writing them as I read the articles. I think that my thoughts will be better connected to the ideas. I should be better at paraphrasing. No runny poop in the forthcoming paraphrases. This is all new to me. I was never instructed in my Eng 101 class (last Fall) to take detailed notes.
As for Ballenger's ideas on note taking. His techniques are good. I think one idea for note taking may just to read the article bit by bit and do some fast writes. I was afraid of fast writes at first, but now I kind of like them. Sometimes it is just babble to get to the next idea, but it forces you to just say whatever. Like I am now. I hope that in my note taking I will write some of my information down in proper context and them paraphrase it, and hopefully it will all become my own idea. I feel I don't have enough ideas to get me through 10 pages of essay writing. I barely have enough for a 10 min. fast write.The exercises on our AWB today, was good. I gained some good knowledge of my citations and remembered that I need to write who the articles address. Wow, there sure are a lot of I statements here. Arggg.

Shannon