Intro

intro


Well have you ever read something and never got it even if you read it several times? i have and i didn't know why but know i have a theory. For my experiment/project I’m going see/test our if our interest on the topic affect our learning and way of seeing things. well an example of my own would be for school i have been asked to read books/articles but never got them even though i read them several times but when i read a truck magazine i would read it all and every single paragraph in it and understood what they were saying because i was familiarized with the topic and cached my attention. i have also read other several type of magazines once a gamer magazine that was my cousins i just read certain pages and took a time to get what they were saying about the game the only thing i understood was the cheat codes i think that happened due to my interest was not in the game reviews but in the cheats and even memorized it. Gillian in her article has students comment/review other peers writings and after the peers have reviewed what their peers wrote they see on what they missed out or didn't explain well this was due because of familiarizing with the writing/topic if the students who reviewed the writings would of not been familiarized with the writing they wouldn't of been able to pick out on what their peer wrote; but because the students in some point related/familiarized to the topic they will put attention to it and understand it.


lit review
well i chose two articles in one Allice Gilliam in "learning through response" has students comment/review other students writing and students learn through each other’s response she talks about metacognition "the ability to monitor our own thinking process." to Gilliam metacognition is "a major factor in mental ability because people who are aware of how they think perform better than those who aren’t." So if we are aware and familiarized with the topic we should understand better and more clearly what we are reading and the meaning of it.

the second article i chose was "Rhetorical reading strategies and the construction of meaning" by Hass and Flower they talk about how writers create their own meaning and how prior knowledge affects it. They also explain how experienced readers analyze the text and student readers only focus on the content of the text which like mentioned before could change the meaning of things.

connection

well in both articles it talks about meaning. i think that familiarity with the topic even if your pro or against the topic having that prior knowledge enables you to give meaning. when you also familiarize with something you gage interest and would like to see what they are talking about. being an experience reader also helps out allot when reading something new you will analyze the words and try to connect them and process them and give a meaning a meaning in which you will be familiarized with, being experienced reader also means you are aware of your thinking process with their fore means you will understand better and try and related it to you or any personal
experiences.

methadology

for teh project im going to do a a survey with asurvery you could reserch several people and with the responses you could come up with statistics and by having statistics you could come up to conclusions on what most people will answer. by asking straight to the points questions and either yes or no i will be able to come to conclusion faster.

reserch data
well i did a survery to 15 both random and known people. in my survery im gona ask simple quick question straight to the point for example asking if what the y mostly read is intristeng to them, do you understand what your reading?, do you read about thinkgs you like?, do sometimes come up with your own defenition of words?, do you find easier to read somthing your familiar with? and the choises for the responses will be either yes or no. by hanig yes or no aswers like mentioned before i can come up with conclusions.

reserch analizys

well after i did the survery and got the results and compared them it showed that if we read things that call our attencion or things we relate to we could understand it better so if were tought like that maybe we would learn more because we would be confortable from where we are and we could grow more writte/read on something we are fiamiar with compared on womething new that we dont know.

conversation piece

based on the results i got from my reserch most people dont like the reading they do at work but they do understand what they are readinng, and also have made or comme up with a defenition to certain words that they dont know the meaning to it. the people who read on spare time like what they read. most people read on things they relate to or calls their attention; and most find it easier to understand something their
familiar with or have intrest on.

mla

Hass, Christina and Linda Flower. Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning
Source: College Composition and Communication, Vol. 39, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 167-183

Gillam, Alice. Research in the classroom:learning through response
Source: The English Journal, Vol. 79, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp. 98-99