Reading Kirikou And The Sorceress

This statement really resonates with me. I am fully unable to understand many things if I only read them one time. The first time I read over to get the "gist" of the text. On my second reading, I skim the text a bit more quickly and pull out sentences that don't make much sense to me and I analyze them more in depth. This helps me a whole heck of a lot to better understand what I am reading.

"I am thrown off my reading game when i am forced to go fast."-Thomas Newkirk For me, reading has always been a obstacle because its hard for me to stay invested in a book.Throughout my years of reading it has become one of my not so favorite things to do unless if i'm interested in it.

At this point in my life I find myself in an interesting predicament regarding my attitudes toward reading and writing; more so towards reading. Years ago I used to love reading books for pleasure but nowadays I find myself reading things that little to no effort to digest. This includes the very basic posts on facebook expressing one’s opinion on something or articles and threads on reddit discussing topics I find intriguing. Perhaps it’s the severe senioritis that has overcome me as I enter my last semester at Chapman University. As I’ve gotten lazier I can see it start to reflect in my everyday life. Deep down I still love to read but I rarely find myself getting truly invested into the action unless it relates to something I am very

As a girl growing up around a group of bikers, boys and two parents who listened to eighties hair bands and metal, you wouldn’t think that I read or was read to frequently before starting school. I pursued in reading quite often, actually. When I finally started school, I had the tendency of keeping to myself and staying quiet. There never have been very many friends in the picture of my life. I learned at a young age that there often are going to be cliques, even when you’re an eight year old in girl scouts. I stood out in more ways than one, but for now I’m only going to elucidate why reading is so salient to me.

As a child, I read non-stop. I used to spend entire nights reading, so much so that by the age of 9, I had developed grey circles under my eyes, which I wore like a badge. In school, I would use every free second I had to get just a little closer to finishing whatever book I had on hand. Ms. Carpenter, who always seemed as though she didn’t like teaching very much, frequently yelled at me for keeping my books on my desk so I could get to them quicker whenever I finished my classwork. She insisted that they were a distraction. But I always had a book to read, because every Friday each class walked in a neat line

The author suggests that not reading has worse results that goes beyond just literature. The author persuades this argument by bringing up a real life situation such as getting a job. He quotes an author by the name of Daniel Pink, “the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities”, when asked what kind of talents he likes to see in management positions. Here, the autor does a good job persuading

When people read they often just skim through, “Although there are virtues to skimming, the vast majority of writing tasks you will encounter in college and in the workplace require your conversancy with material you have read.” (David Rosenwasser, of Home from Nowhere:Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-first Century, as Rosenwasser defines, become conversant 107).

Concluding, Bell reminds readers that speed-reading is not just about reading faster, but about having control. He also reminds that it takes time and effort to learn but practice is

I'm 60 years old now, but I spent many years hating how slowly I read. I had so many interests in things I would love to read about... but my slow reading made this a tortuously long task.

Right now, I consider myself an avid reader. I love reasing, and I am pretty safe to say that I am a high-level reader. I might not be the fasterst, most attentative, or overall best reader out in the class, but I don’t need to be any of those. I’m an exceptional reader and that’s all that matters to me. By the end of this semester, I want to be an even better reader than I am now. Being a “better reader” is an abstract idea, one that can’t be measured. By “better” I mean that I want to be a faster reader, and that I want to widen my vocabulary. My minnimum goal is to keep my reading level at the college level

Like a lot of people, I’m drowning in words. It’s no wonder then that speed reading—reading at an increased speed with no loss of comprehension—is an increasingly popular recourse for both the GTD crowd and anyone who worships at the altar of productivity. Who wouldn’t want to breeze through their reading list at 2,500+ words per minute and devour Johnny Five levels of input?

In reading your Discussion reply, I know that life can be hectic at times; however, I believe reading is fundamental and we are reading even when we are unaware that we are reading. For example, when we are searching for items in the grocery store we must read signs and content on the package details. I use to purchase a newspaper faithfully every Sunday to enhance my reading skills. However, now oppose to utilizing the computer just for social media I read the news. The online text consist of the local new and international news as well. Reading keeps me sharp and always implying critical thinking as you stated food for one’s mind. I will read as I am bathing. It allows me to escape on a mini adventure and I can often sympathize or take on the roles of the characters when reading various books.

As we roll down the information highway via Google and other popular internet search engines, myriad facts, figures, and opinions are instantly at our fingertips. The question arises, does all this easy access of information add to our comprehension? Not necessarily. Noted American writer, philosopher, and educator, Mortimer Adler’s 1972 revised publication of How to Read a Book explores such ideas some 25 years before the widespread usage of the World Wide Web. Charles Van Doren, of 1950’s game show scandal fame, co-authored the revised version of the book. In the first chapter, “The Activity and Art of Reading”, Alder delves into contrasting several concepts that distinguish types of reading and their results. First, Alder explains the

As printed text becomes more difficult to read, reading as a hobby has gotten a lot less attractive to some people. UCLA psychology professor Patricia Greenfield points out in her studies, “reading develops imagination, induction,

I was never an avid reader. Under normal circumstances, I would’ve relied on people around me for information rather than find it myself. Under normal circumstances, I would simply work for a living. Work until I would make something of myself. These were not normal circumstances. Now I wished that I picked up a book and thought for myself before my life would come to this.