They might instead skip around, scanning for pertinent information of interest… I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore…” (318). Students are not focusing on reading a book from beginning to end. Instead, students tend to skim through and miss the important information which is a negative impact on them. Carr agrees that using the Web so often is having a negative effect on him because he is having a harder time focusing and reading articles which are more than a few sentences. He points out, “When I mentions my troubles with reading to friends, many say they’re suffering from similar afflictions.
There are many points made that can clearly push the overall answer one way, or another, its just about balancing out the positives and negatives. Cullington explains that texting can potentially hurt formal writing, but is proven to have no positive or negative affects in the long run. There are many concerns about text speak and formal writing. Cullington talks about how teachers see a decline in writing and are having problems in class because of text speak. “A Minnesota teacher of seventh and ninth grades says that she has to spend extra time in class editing papers and must 'explicitly' remind her students that is is not acceptable to use text slang and abbreviations in writing” (Cullington 89).
11 December 2014 Drowning in the Discourse Julie Wildhaber says that “A strong, well-defined voice is the bridge between you and your audience: It helps your readers understand who you are, and it helps you engage them” (Wildhaber). For students in college, their audience will always be their professor. Along with expecting a strong voice, professors expect students, even first year students, to master and employ the many other writing skills that make up academic discourse. Most students tend to prioritize the more technical conventions of writing over the development of a distinguished and personalized voice. The conventions of college writing are very complex and if professors are more helpful and patient with first year students as they learn academic discourse, students will be better prepared for all future academic endeavors and they will have a better opportunity to strengthen and develop their voice.
I couldn’t understand why I had to read so much in the first week. However I fought through the readings and discovered that my preferred model of argumentative writing was the classical model. I also found I could understand the appeals of the Toulmin model and the Rogerian model. With this in mind I examined the essays in the reading clusters trying to identify the use of these models. This helped me to develop both as a writer and thinker because I had to try and understand where the writers where going with their arguments and the techniques they used to appeal to their readers.
Constructing Meaning through Reading and Writing Shannon Zelayandia Grand Canyon University: EED-475 April 7, 2013 Constructing Meaning through Reading and Writing |Strategy |Activity |Assessment | |Teach the Author-Reader Relationship |Write Aloud: Give the students a small passage |Have the students hand in their papers and | | |and then have the students write what the |check for a clear understanding by what answers| | |author’s purpose is. Including main characters,|the students put down. Have each student bring | | |plot, main idea, and setting. They can also |up the paper one by one and ask further | | |draw a picture to go with it. |questions to the students t check for a better | | | |understanding.
Second, have the students write down a few of the challenging words | | |they may struggle with in the story. Third, the students write the words on their personal dry-erase boards. | | |Fourth, recite them after the teacher says them. Then, the Teacher reads aloud the story “A chair for my | | |mother" by Vera B. Williams. Review the most frequently used words after reading the story.
To begin with, Goldstein first argument is “can it really be that all those students who are earnestly taking notes in my econ class, never looking up for a moment but always tapping away, are trying to get down every word the lecturer is saying” (Goldstein, 289). This argument, to me, does not hold much water. How does he know what every student is doing? He then continues and says “And I confess that I myself have done all these things in this course, and also in poly sci, another large lecture” (Goldstein, 289). How can you complain about something you yourself do?
Objectives: After this lesson the student will know how to use descriptive words in stories they write to make the story more interesting to the reader. They will write a story using these words. 2. Materials • Writing paper • Pencils and erasers 3. Standards: o Language Arts-Writing: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process; Uses the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing o Language Arts-Viewing: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media o Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Not everyone wants that much help! Teachers, quit making me take notes all the time! There are certain teachers that will grade you on your notes, calling it a participation grade. That has got to be the biggest load of crap I've ever heard! Many kids like myself are blessed with the capability to understand and remember things just by actively participating in the class discussion and listening to their teachers.
It is not easy for her because just like her, the students in her class all have their own life experiences and situations that they have had to overcome and still they are sitting in class trying to move on. She makes it her mission to help them and maybe help them finds way to overcome the scars that they have. Castellanos explains, “ I teach in a totally non-traditional way. I use every trick in the books: lots of positive reinforcement, both oral and written; lots of one-on-one conferences. I network women with each other, refer them to professor friends who can help them; connect them to graduate students and/or former students who are already pursuing careers” (pg 348).