In this essay I will talk about how does form of text books affects the learning of the student, , what is the best form of a book for the different and see which is the one that is more adapted for a subject. In my particular case I´m studying civil engineer and I use in the most of the times books of physics and math and the books that I understand the more are the one that have a brief explenation of the theory and then gives all kind of examples that have that case, the best books for me are the one´s that just nail the main idea and don´t gives us the information we (the students) don´t need. But all the books are different, like the books that their main audience are doctors or historians, in that books they give all the information that they need and more that in the most of the times they will never use it. So my hypothesis is the books have to be written in a way that satisfy the students needs in any subject.
Lit review
The form of a book is different for all the books, in the most of the cases it depends to who it´s guided, Who is the main audience for every text book. For example in math books for every topic they are to many exercises, this is for the students practice what they have learned, and work in groups to help each other and make it more easy to understand, here is when "peer response" enters and it´s very effective for the students, also the text book must focus on how it will express their information, it has to be clear and the easier way for the student to understand it, Cause when the student see something too dificult and all mess up he is already thinking that it would be hard to understand, but by the other side if is all ordered and step by step it would be more easy for the student. Also the text book has to be very selective with the difficulty of the words that it would be in the text book, cause the author should know what would be their main audience. For example in a historic book, that it´s about the American history, the main audience are the students from elementary and middle school and the author´s will be very wrong if he puts very difficults words cause this students are barely getting a wide vocabulary and you can´t put words too difficult for them cause they wouldn´t understand it and they will be desinterested on the text book
Connection
For this essay I use Gilliam with the term of "peer response" cause for me it´s to important that students helps each other, in fact all the live you use peer response cause you´re always asking a partner or a colleague if you are right on what you are doing. And the texts books I think that should take this term account cause it would help the students, the text book have to put exercises that should be done on teams. The other article I used was about audience from Kroll, and he says that the author has to keep in mind three factors: "rhetorical, informational and social" and I´m in totally agree with him cause with this three things you have the weapons to nail the audience , taking in account what are the topics that you are trying to explain, And the las article I used was from Christensen and this article talks about how you can change sentences maintaining the main idea, and I think this is good for my essay cause one as student can change the words of a book to his own words for a better understanding, but habing the meaning of what he is trying to learn. And I think if you put all this three articles together and if you connected this three it would be a very good way to choose a book, cause it would be clearly and the audience will be defined, and if it's in words not that complicated and you understand the most and you will translate it to your daily words.
Methodology
For this project I will do different kinds of experiments to prove how does form affects an text book, his meaning. For example I will look for different math books that are similar and by this I mean that have the same explanation of a theory and how they solve it, and when I have this books I will experiment on two college students that haven't seen this kind of problem before, and see who has a better response and a more detailed answer,although they are permit to use the book, they can't get help of any other source, with this I think the answers, if they are right, it would be the same, but the process would be different and see which response is more detailed and easy to understand, and also I will do other experiment with this two students, but instead of math, it would be about American history, focus in one topic, like the discover of America, but from two different books, and for this one book is only gonna be a college text book only facts, and the other book it would be one that is illustrated and have lots of pictures, and with this experiments I will prove my theory about how form affect in the understanding of a student.
Research Data
So for my project I did two experiments with the same two people, that are one friend and my sister, the both of them just finish the high school so they have almost the same capacity of learning, so the first experiment was about a math problem, how to solve, I find two books that explain differently the same problem, in one book is was all messy and just one way to get to the response, but with the another book it was more clearly and tell us all the ways to get to an response and the things that may affect the problem, so I get one problem of the messy book and put it to the both of them, and the person that had the clear book, in this case my sister, had the correct response. And on the other experiment I tried with something about history, Mexican history, in this case, it was about “The Independence of Mexico” of two different books, and the both of them response correct for all my questions, and the two books were totally different, one had illustrations and underlined main ideas, and the other one was just a bunch of facts.
Research Analysis
With this two project I realize that the subject does matters cause in the case of history, it was something that this two students have learned this all their school lives, cause they are also from Mexico, and they know perfectly how the things pass, and doesn´t matters too much how one books can explain it, but in the other case, the math book, it was something new for the two of them and had never seen something like that before, it was totally new for them, I didn´t help anyone when they were solving the problem, and although my friend is better in math, my sister had the book that was more clear and explain step by step what to do and what will be the best options to solve a problem , so she had the right response, and obviously it would be easier if they had a teacher cause a teacher is a mediator but I want to prove my hypothesis and I think I was right , but not on all the topics affects my hypothesis.
Conversation Piece/ Conclusion
In my Research analysis I notice that my hypothesis was correct, of how the form of a book affect the learning of the student, well not at all, cause in the case of the history books my hypothesis doesn't matter at all, so my hypothesis is more for the books that their main topics are math and physics, because I noticed that the more clear is a book, the better explain, and by this I mean step by step, are more useful for students that the books that are all messed up, because they are some books that skips lots of steps, supposing them that the student knows how to do everything, and this is totally wrong, well for me, because sometimes the student just forgets how to do it, so in my personal opinion I think the best way is that they just put why did they do this or they do that, bur for me the best books are the ones that are explain step by step, and I think this information is good for all the students because this are the things we need ti know, because a book is our principal support thing, and when in class we don't understand or just miss that class, a book is the better way to put update, and know how to solve the new problems, or is you don't remember how to do some problems you just check on the book and review it, so that's the reason why the books have to be clear and well explain, and this has to be important to the teachers too, because in the majority of the times they are the ones that tell us which book we have tu use for the class, and it will be better for them too to choose a book that is step by step, because when the student study by their self it would be more easy for the student to understand, and more if the professor teach the same way the book explain how to solve a problem, and that way the student will learn more and the teacher will be conscious that if a student miss a class or didn't put attention in class, they have a good support book that will explain in a good way how to solve the problems. So yes, I thin my hypothesis work in books about math and physics that are step by step, and this information it has to matter to students and teachers.
Conversation Piece/ Conclusion
In my Research analysis I notice that my hypothesis was correct, of how the form of a book affect the learning of the student, well not at all, cause in the case of the history books my hypothesis doesn't matter at all, so my hypothesis is more for the books that their main topics are math and physics, because I noticed that the more clear is a book, the better explain, and by this I mean step by step, are more useful for students that the books that are all messed up, because they are some books that skips lots of steps, supposing them that the student knows how to do everything, and this is totally wrong, well for me, because sometimes the student just forgets how to do it, so in my personal opinion I think the best way is that they just put why did they do this or they do that, bur for me the best books are the ones that are explain step by step, and I think this information is good for all the students because this are the things we need ti know, because a book is our principal support thing, and when in class we don't understand or just miss that class, a book is the better way to put update, and know how to solve the new problems, or is you don't remember how to do some problems you just check on the book and review it, so that's the reason why the books have to be clear and well explain, and this has to be important to the teachers too, because in the majority of the times they are the ones that tell us which book we have tu use for the class, and it will be better for them too to choose a book that is step by step, because when the student study by their self it would be more easy for the student to understand, and more if the professor teach the same way the book explain how to solve a problem, and that way the student will learn more and the teacher will be conscious that if a student miss a class or didn't put attention in class, they have a good support book that will explain in a good way how to solve the problems. So yes, I thin my hypothesis work in books about math and physics that are step by step, and this information it has to matter to students and teachers.
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