Tuesday, February 28, 2012
1.As i was reading i was connecting to all their examples, but there was one that really caught my attention and that was Walter Hope when he said that his "chemistry book sucked", took me back to High School and remembering falling asleep reading my Chemistry book. Really thats the way i was during High School i would spend very little amount of time reading assisgments from school and i would actually pay more attention to what really intrested me.
2. Students from University of Arkansas enjoyed reading but what intrested them. Not their "boring" textbook or class assigments. In other words, they were being forced to read the reading they had to do for school. When it got to reading outside school they "manifested a passion for reading".
3. they were infexible towards the reading that they had to do. So i'm guessing that they would just read. remember what they had to remember nd after that forget about it.
4. She probably was thinking that once students would get out of high school they would be more serious about their reading,but she was probably wrong thats the reason she said that "we urged faculty members and program administrators at our institution to think differently about reading in their courses".
5.Maybe suggest them to connect something of their lifes with the reading and like that they'll find it more intresting. It doesnt matter what kind of reading.For Example In Science readings you can connect to something you saw outside.
6.She basiclly described her textbook as a boring pieze of mass that is just taking space/ not useful.
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First of all I want to say that your responses here are impressive! You show a really good understanding of what J&H are saying and your ability to infer what J&H are trying to get at in this short excerpt, shows you have an incredible understanding of the context in which this reading is being done!
ReplyDeleteAmazing job, Edgar!
Now, let's focus on #3 a lil bit, since you noted having some difficulty with it!
The Q asks: After referring to two student examples by name, Jolliffe and Harl write that “other students were more adamantly critical.” Based on the surrounding context of this phrase, how would you describe students who were “more adamantly critical”?
So here, the Q lets us know that we'll probably get a good understanding of what "adamantly critical" means in the sentences and text around the quote.
The quote comes from this sentence:
"Although Angela's and Corey's responses to school-based reading, typical of those of many of the participants, were rather neutrally dismissive, other students were more adamantly critical."
The sentences before the quote are:
"Here was Angela's response to her sociology text: "I completely agree" with it and it "raises no questions." Corey assessed his Fundamentals of Communication reading as being self-evident, and said that he rapidly perused "The Genocidal Killer in the Mirror" just in order to generate a thesis about it."
These are the sentences after the quote:
"One student, Jennifer Respighi, described how she took only five minutes to read a sample biology lab report "because it was so boring." Another student, Katherine Quick, characterized her psychology textbook as "a brutally boring overwad" and wrote that she skipped sections "because there was no reason to read a bunch of bullshit."
Read over these again, and let the quote guide you to which parts(the sentences before or after) are used to refer to the students that are neutral and those that are adamantly critical.
What does it mean to be critical of something? When have you used the word critical, or a similar word like critique or critic? What are these words usually associated with? Which of the group of sentences (the sentences before or the sentences after) are examples of students that are critical of the readings they have to do?
When i first defined "adamantly critical" i related with the second group of sentences. Critical means to "judge with severity or skilled in criticism". So by them putting adamantly in front doesn't really mean what i first said that they would just read it and forget about it. it means that they would read it with "determination" with nothing breaking that connection. So it actually goes with the first group.
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