First and foremost Rules for Writers is a great book and wished I had this back in High School. It's leaps and bounds better than my old english books. With being a visual and hands on learner this book helps me understand concepts learned in High School I didn't quite get when the teacher would explain orally. Helpful tools I will be using in the future are guidelines for active reading, writing a summary, and analyzing text. I always had the basics down for summaries and analyzing texts, but no teacher ever gave me guidelines to help clarify my questions I had once home. These new guidelines for me two use will help me become a better writer because I will understand more of any text I read no matter how dense. Now onto the main points of chapter 46.
Active reading is a great way to help you understand any text you might read. Active reading helps break down dense texts to tiny parts that are easily read and understand, but also with easy read helps you find and condense main points made. Active reading is a skill useful for reading text, then helping you summarize, and analyzing if need be. Active reading is the foundation to creating your papers and understanding the very dense scientific articles.
Another main point is learning how to start your paper. This is always something I have trouble with getting started on my paper. If I can summarize points/information and then analyze those points/information, it will become much easier to get started on my papers. This will help me with my outline when starting a new paper this year.
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