Is figuring out what is important in a given source of information something you can teach a person?

I'm really good at it how did i become so good at it?
was it cause when a professor presented what was important i could discern the basic characteristics and thus apply to other texts.


What are these characteristics?
Does it depend on the type of text?
Does it depend on the purpose?

The general characteristics seem to be ...
What is the general point the text is trying to get across?
What are the details and definitions of these points that its is trying to across?

However I may be limited to the texts that I have analyzed.

I always do this, I always say I'm gonna start writing again, and then i don't, but I'm out there living life I can't rationalize taking the time to actually write to no one or anyone who doesn't care. Then again I never started because of someone else I started because of me. I'm going to attempt this again.

Whats Going on In My Life Right Now.
1.) Watching the Buffy and Angel seasons with my boyfriend :)
they are not particularly mind altering or anything but they are entertaining, and a good activity to do with my man or to crochet along with when he isn't around
2.) Christmas is over,
and for once in my life it wasn't completely hell at my house.
plus I spent my Christmas day with my boyfriends family and it was fun i kicked ass at UFC :)
We spent more than the usual time together and it was great.:D ( btw boys wi'm world champ! not that your reading this) oh and i have x-mas money to spend, and for once in my life i'm not gonna save it I'm gonna spend it on me!!!!!
AND my boyfriends 12 Day of Christmas gifts was amazing :) he is the most thoughtful person i know:D
3.) school is starting up again soon:(
BIG BIG bummer I'm so tired of 4100!

Well that's all i can think of right now. seeya around i hope.

My Return

I am back. It is as simple and as complex as that.
I'm back and the reason is because I'm on a mission to find out who I am.
Somewhere in the past couple years I've lost myself. I'm somewhere between who I am and who I want to be. I'm endeavoring to take the truest path to finding myself.
I never realized how life is so short and yet for some people who actually take the time (and have the ability) to look back it is riddled with small but important details.

...Or maybe I'm just making a big deal about something that is suppose to come naturally.

i'm in pain, really when a memory and a far off relationship are more aluring than you, what can one feel? happiness?. and i'm not blind, i see the defference in degree in his passion distribution. i'm at the losing end. I'm quite worthless to him, yet i torture myself. i dont need to go far other opertunities just come to me, why do i seem to enjoy this heart wretching pain? i turned down real people, is it to much to ask the same? oh well what ever happens, happens. in the mean time i'm left to wonder why i sound better when singing along with men, i have such a girly talking voice it odd. must be off now. good day onto you all.

Addiction

Well what am I to say other than once in another life I was nother person, and in that life I let all thoughts spill, thinking that no one was there to pick them up. I was gravely wrong. Thoughts that may have offend, where scavenged, and used in retaliation against me. I gathered said thoughts and hid them, promising myself not to let any more scamper. but my thoughts are causing me ill, thus did whatever possible to be reborn into this life. One where my scattered thoughts will be my own, and if not no names shall be regocnized. Harmed shall none be.