Monday, February 18, 2008
Reading Comprehension
After reading the Applegate article, I found that I am a cross between a literalist and an author. When I was younger, I would definitely say that I was more of an author. I was always coming up with more details that what were given, or giving way elaborate responses to questions, when a simple comment would have probably sufficed. I think that being younger, I got away with more, and it helped me in the creative process as well. Today, I do think that I am still a bit of an author. I sometimes take away more than what was given to me, and I know that I can even get redundant or add too much dialogue to my papers. Being older now, I do believe that I am also a literalist, espically since high school and college, where much of my homework has been based on facts and to find these facts or bits of information, I had to look to my texts. I'm not quite sure if these traits have proven to be a detrement to me and my writing, and I think that by being both an author and literalist, I can absorb the facts, while also being a bit creative (I need to not take it too far though, where I create my own details). These readings definitely opened me up to my reading comprehansion, and I can now see myself being aware of my own reading and writing styles. It will be interesting to see how my future students display their own traits to reading comprehension.
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I think it is interesting how you looked at yourself as a younger student and an older student because it shows how you are a cross between a literalist and an author. I think it is true that when we are younger we give more information that is needed or information that is not needed at all. I would say most college students are literalist because we are dependent on texts. I think that no one person can fall under one catergory because as we grow, so does the way we do things. It is hard to pick one thing because you can look at it one way and then see yourdelf under another. I think you did a good job not categorizing yourself as just one thing.
I very much enjoyed reading your post. I also enjoyed how you looked at yourself from your younger years, then again from your older years. It is interesting to see how you evolved as a reader. I would also have to agree with Ashleigh that we can not all fit into one category of reader, that we take certain skills from each phase as we grow in our reading abilities.
I definately agree that it is hard to place yourself into just one category, especially when you are constantly growing and changing as a reader. It is interesting that you categorized yourself as an author at first and then a literalist. This must mean you have a wide range of comprehension skills!
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