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A great choice for a modern era! Reading a scholarly work on an electronic device can be very convenient. We'll be able to search for phrases within the text at any time, allowing us to quickly and easily navigate what can be extremely long or dense material. Most reading programs will also allow us to quickly find the exact pages we're looking for. And of course, just like on physical paper, it's easy to use tools to highlight, underline, annotate, and otherwise interact with the text as much as we'd like.
Personally, this is my preferred method of looking at scholarly works. I find it much easier to have all of my files collected into one place, where I can pull up any text in Adobe Acrobat, a great program with plenty of features to help me engage with these works.
Here is the excerpt we will be using:
Turn on the Light
Turn on the Light
Speaking of tools and features, one of the first things that come to mind when thinking about how to interact with scholarly texts is highlighting. It's something that works for many people, helping to emphasize important information and make it stand out against the sea of black and white. But what should we highlight?
Should we highlight just the author's key points and overarching ideas? Or include their arguments and maybe even evidence as well?
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