Adler's How To Mark A Book

In “How to Mark a Book” by Mortimer J. Adler to be an active reader, there is more to it than just reading. By assessing how important Mortimer emphasizes the importance of writing in a book I made sure to clarify how one can write in a book. Like in this sentence, “According to Adler, there are plenty of ways one can mark in a book; underlining, vertical lines at the margin, asterisk, numbers in the margin, circling or highlighting, writing in the margin at the bottom or top, etc.” (Chavez 1). This clearly states how one can write in a book if they do not know how to start. Also, I also try to provide an introduction before I use a quote, as in this sentence, “A book that holds many uses for it, like answer various questions one may have, …show more content…
In this sentence, “Adler emphasizes marking in a book keeps the reader mentally awake, helps their thoughts become more alive, and also remember later what they had read, but more sharp and clear in their mind” (Chavez 1). If I would have spent more time, I could have made this sentence better paraphrased, that required less commas. Another thing I felt I could have changed in my paper is the amount of quotes I used in my paper. For example, “The sign of intelligence in reading is the ability to read things differently according to their worth” (Adler 3). This quote could have been excluded in my paper though it was a good quote, did not relate much to what the topic I was trying to summarize on Alder. Lastly, in this sentence, “One does not initially understand what they are reading, until they feel like they are having a conversation with the author” (Chavez 1). I liked this sentence but I feel I could have backed it up with more sentence that provide great intel to it and supports it reasoning on how one can have a conversation with a book. Ultimately, on my Active Reader paper, I believe I did a good job on summarizes Adler’s points on why a book should be written