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withtheteacher,onceheunderstandswhattheteacherissaying.Andmarkingabookisliterallyanexpressionofyour

differences,oragreementsofopinion,withtheauthor.

Thereareallkindsofdevicesformarkingabookintelligentlyandfruitfully.HeresthewayIdoit:

1.Underlining:ofmajorpoints,ofimportantorforcefulstatements.

2.Verticallinesatthemargin:toemphasizeastatementalreadyunderlined.

3.Star,asterisk,orotherdoo-dadatthemargin:tobeusedsparingly,toemphasizethetenortwentymostimportant

statementsinthebook.

4.Numbersinthemargin:toindicatethesequenceofpointstheauthormakesindevelopingasingleargument.

5.Numberofotherpagesinthemargin:toindicatewhereelseinthebooktheauthormadepointsrelevanttothepoint

marked;totieuptheideasinabook,which,thoughtheymaybeseparatedbymanypages,belongtogether.

6.Circlingofkeywordsorphrases.

7.Writinginthemargin,oratthetoporbottomofthepage,forthesakeof:recordingquestions（andperhaps

answers）whichapassageraiseinyourmind;reducingacomplicateddiscussiontoasimplestatement;recordingthe

sequenceofmajorpointsrightthroughthebook.Iusetheend-papersatthebackofthebooktomakeapersonalindexofthe

authorspointsintheorderoftheirappearance.

Thefrontend-papersare,tome,themostimportant.Somepeoplereservethemforafancybookplate,Ireservethemfor

fancythinking.AfterIhavefinishedreadingthebookandmakingmypersonalindexonthebackend-papers,Iturntothe

frontandtrytooutlinethebook,notpagebypage,orpointbypoint（Ivealreadydonethatattheback）,butasan

integratedstructure,withabasicunityandanorderofparts.Thisoutlineis,tome,themeasureofmyunderstandingofthe

work.

NewWords

persuade

vt.cause（sb.）todosth.byreasoning,arguing,etc.