How to read mindfully

… from pamphlets to Ben Hur ….

Over at Writing Across The Curricula, Professor Ellen Carillo has written a beautiful book on reading mindfully. If you have not read it yet, here is a free copy (legit free copy),

PDF A Writer’s Guide to Mindful Reading — WAC Clearinghouse

And here is a mind map of the book with my annotations below

Hand drawn mind map of Reading Mindfully for Writers

Set up the tools

The book is a gem, particularly if you happen to read a lot whether print books, or online. I have only extracted some thoughts in the form of a map on the reading strategy and here are my notes:

Reading strategy is part of academic discourse, which in turn consists of:

• finding your voice. — This is where your original thoughts, reactions, and comments are given a chance to flourish as you read _anything_. The best way to do so according to Carillo is to start annotating, so here are a few sources of annotations that you can use:
• If you are working on Medium, use Medium’s own annotation tools (highlighters, side notes, comments ….)
• Use something like hypothes.is if you are reading on the web. Visit the webpage and download either the Google Chrome add-on and install on your browser Or the bookmarklet and off you go with a free account. A free and…