Week five coming up, and I’m doing my homework for next week
on a Tuesday…? I think that’s the first time that happened, ever. But hey, that
means I don’t have anything to study over the weekend and what weekend would be
better to be homework-free than Halloween?? So excited!!
So this week we had two readings, one about primary research and one about reading. I enjoyed the one about reading the most, since it went really deep on how you will become a better writer by “reading like a writer”, something I haven’t thought about before. This article talked a lot about how you can read a text “word-by-word” and “sentence-by-sentence” and how you can compare it with building a house, piece by piece till you have a finished product. It was interesting how they talked about how teachers know that you will become a better writer by reading but they don’t really teach how to improve your writing through reading. Instead, they just make you read different texts and stories and usually, we read those “by meaning” and not “word-by-word”, we just need to make sure we get the idea and what is going on. There is usually no focus on technique or writing skills from the author when you get a reading assignment in an English/writing class, at least not the classes I’ve been taking during my time in school. So this article focuses a lot on how you should go from reading for information to reading for technique and they explain it really well at the end when they take pieces from the article and analyzes it, that really helped me understand how I should think when I read in order to become a better writer. They also talked a lot about how you should start reading a text/story by figuring our who the audience is and what the purpose of the words are, in order to understand it better. That is something I usually don’t do, and I don’t think that I am alone about that. Overall, interesting article with a lot of good tips!
The other reading was about primary research and was very informative. It is interesting how primary research (collecting first hand information through observing and analyzing something) is so important, but in school now a days it is mostly about secondary research (books and articles), at least in classes I have been in. It explained how you should do a timeline before you start and that you shouldn’t forget important parts such as planning and analyzing your information instead of only focusing on gathering data. It also talked about how you become an ethical researcher. In order to be an ethical researcher you need to make sure that the people you are observing are ok with it (you need their permission), you need to make sure to keep them anonymous and you shouldn’t go into an research with a bias (if you think you know it, don’t do the research. Your results will be affected of your bias).
Overall, two good readings but I do prefer the comic book readings for sure!! Now it’s time to work on some questions for my interview with Chad, the property manager at Beach City. No homework for me this weekend!!
So this week we had two readings, one about primary research and one about reading. I enjoyed the one about reading the most, since it went really deep on how you will become a better writer by “reading like a writer”, something I haven’t thought about before. This article talked a lot about how you can read a text “word-by-word” and “sentence-by-sentence” and how you can compare it with building a house, piece by piece till you have a finished product. It was interesting how they talked about how teachers know that you will become a better writer by reading but they don’t really teach how to improve your writing through reading. Instead, they just make you read different texts and stories and usually, we read those “by meaning” and not “word-by-word”, we just need to make sure we get the idea and what is going on. There is usually no focus on technique or writing skills from the author when you get a reading assignment in an English/writing class, at least not the classes I’ve been taking during my time in school. So this article focuses a lot on how you should go from reading for information to reading for technique and they explain it really well at the end when they take pieces from the article and analyzes it, that really helped me understand how I should think when I read in order to become a better writer. They also talked a lot about how you should start reading a text/story by figuring our who the audience is and what the purpose of the words are, in order to understand it better. That is something I usually don’t do, and I don’t think that I am alone about that. Overall, interesting article with a lot of good tips!
The other reading was about primary research and was very informative. It is interesting how primary research (collecting first hand information through observing and analyzing something) is so important, but in school now a days it is mostly about secondary research (books and articles), at least in classes I have been in. It explained how you should do a timeline before you start and that you shouldn’t forget important parts such as planning and analyzing your information instead of only focusing on gathering data. It also talked about how you become an ethical researcher. In order to be an ethical researcher you need to make sure that the people you are observing are ok with it (you need their permission), you need to make sure to keep them anonymous and you shouldn’t go into an research with a bias (if you think you know it, don’t do the research. Your results will be affected of your bias).
Overall, two good readings but I do prefer the comic book readings for sure!! Now it’s time to work on some questions for my interview with Chad, the property manager at Beach City. No homework for me this weekend!!
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