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.
It’s more like, you want to read it. Because you reading about someone who’s going through what you going through and it helps a lot. But if read something that I can’t get into, then I don’t read it. It’s not interesting to me. Like Mr._________ he get these books and a lot of these words, he can’t even read that.
Rebecca Laessig My Life as a Writer I don't consider myself to be the greatest writer. My grammar has a lot to be improved upon and I always seem to be at a loss for words. with that said, writing is a bit of a challenge for me. I don't hate writing, but I don't necessarily enjoy it either. in my paper, I will write about my accomplishments, routine writings, and major strengths and how they help develop my writing skills today.
The way I improved my paper was taking my instructors constructive criticism and making the necessary corrections, to the best of my ability. I had obvious problems with the comma usage, dangling modifiers, and it was no question that I have to improve my vocabulary. Referring back to the text book and using the Thesaurus definitely helped me make the best revisions that I can make. The most challenging part of this assignment for me was to expand the use of my vocabulary. I know a lot of words; I just don’t use them in my everyday conversation, thus making it more difficult to incorporate in my essay.
Prose also says that the students are, "...handicapped not merely by how little literature they have read but by their utter inability to read it." The students loathe literature because they have never been taught how to read and comprehend it correctly. Finally, Prose also states that the books taught are, "... taught for reasons that have nothing to do with how well a book is written," and that, "every opportunity to instill adolescents with a lifelong affinity for narrative... is being squandered on regimens of
Now that I am doing a vocational course, I feel as if school didn’t prepare me for this new journey, I didn’t have the skills to do thorough research which is needed in BTEC Health and Social care, everything is coursework based as opposed to the previously examination based courses I was studying; this suddenly made me feel as though I wasn’t taking in information very well. I was stuck in revision mode and having to remember things to implement them in exams, only this time there were no exams so I quickly adopted a lazy attitude in the first year of this course and reduced my work quality by thinking that I had to read the text books and write them up as scripts in my own words which was far from correct. This also caused my attendance to drop because I thought everything was so ‘easy’ which had its own consequences; I missed a lot of valuable information given in classes that would mean I would actually learn new things. I started panicking and started to attend again; being patient with myself so as to learn new skills and it did pay off in the end because I actually started to understand how to execute my assignments properly. This was purely because of my own commitment and drives to stick to something and learn contrary to implementing my previous experiences of
Growing up as a kid reading was not an interest of mines. It was something about reading that jaded me and didn’t quite capture my attention. I can remember like yesterday my always forcing me to read a book. “Tyvell you better be reading.” She would scream. And I would say “Yes mam I’m reading,” as I was staring at the pictures pretending as if I am reading.
The reason I chose this factor is because of how close the young man is to the book and how the instructor seems as if she is reading as well as following the words with her finger. That leads me to believe that he probably can’t see the words well on the book. If he comes from a low-income community and his family does not have health care, then maybe he never thought about getting his vision checked because his parents are not in a position to pay for it. Now on the other hand everything I perceived this visual to be could be totally wrong which is why you can’t act on perception alone. I’ve learned in life that you have to deal with facts, things that could be proven, because a perception is just a theory that your thoughts created due to certain
When it comes to what children are reading, people only think of the bad things and what the book is about. They don’t look at how it could possibly benefit them! I think that students should be able to read books that appeal to their beliefs and culture. It could help them learn more about themselves and their religion; they can’t do that if those books are banned from school libraries and bookstores! Book banning has been going on for the past two thousand years but people still read those books!
Why I Hate Writing When given a writing assignment there are many ways to go about doing it. There is the smart way and there is the not so smart way, where you procrastinate till the last moment, do not check over your work and submit what you have and hope that it’s good enough for the teacher to not call you out in the middle of class with a big old “What the hell is this crap.” From these two the one that defines my writing style would be the not so smart. When given a writing assignment I tend to procrastinate due to two, in my view, simple reasons. One being writing and being able to make up/ analyze a story comes hard to me and the second being I absolutely hate writing with a burning passion. I always try to start by making an