Reflective Essay Project 1 Revised

Why is it o difficult for me to read school related articles but so easy to read my favorite magazine? The message I am trying to evoke is that I think almost every student goes thru the same kind of stuff, for example for me, when I have to read something sometimes I’m not interested in that topic at all, but I read it, and get distracted so easily due to the fact that I’m not interested in the topic, also because sometimes they are very lengthy. Because the vocabulary in a school article is sometimes very big, meaning different words, it is hard for me to understand. I wanted to compare the kind of magazines have and the ones that are school related. And the first thing that came to my mind when I asked myself that question, was first of all the topic, we all have different things that interest us, when sometimes an article has a topic that we don’t enjoy reading, we use any excuse to not read it and get distracted, the article needs to be very interesting and needs to catch my eye in order for me to read it and understand it. I think that a lot of students might relate to the same problem that I have which is reading, when it comes to reading I need to be very focused and not distracted in order for me to understand it and enjoy it. For example for me my problem when it comes to reading articles is first of all the topic and the vocabulary. This a very connected because when you don’t like the topic you don’t want to understand the vocabulary and it seems very hard for you because you simply don’t like the article and then decide it not to read it. At the beginning I wanted to do a question or something related to music, because when I was younger I played the piano, so it was a big part of my life at that time, because I don’t play it anymore. And it was kind of difficult because I didn’t know what kind of project I was going to do; I wanted to do something really creative. So that why I decided to use something that I still do, which is read my favorite magazines. I enjoy reading them because I like the topics they use, and they are very colorful and with lots of pictures, and that is something that a book/article doesn’t have. I started to read those magazines when I was in middle school. My favorite magazines are fashion related, that’s something that I really enjoy reading. Yes I do like to read books, but they have to be very interesting to me. For my thing I wanted to do something really creative, so I asked myself a question, what can I do that has something related to both school and magazine articles? I try to connect school readings to the magazine’s form because they are kind of more ‘fun’ for me to read, mostly because they are very creative and they catch my eye. What I did was I cut pages from magazines, like the cover and some of my favorite articles that were inside. I also used articles from some of my classes, like one from my economy class and the other from my English class from last semester. I pasted everything in colored pages and I put stuff that would make it look more like a magazine. I really think that I used my theory really well in my ‘thing’. It was kind of difficult to come up with the question, first of all because I didn’t know what topic to use. So I though that a magazine related question was a perfect fit for me. Not only because I enjoy reading them, but also because I would love to work for my favorite magazine when I grow up. I carry the magazines everywhere with me. I think that for our questions we all used school, writing and reading related questions. So I chose to use something related to reading, not only because everything we do is related to it, but also because I’m still learning and trying to improve my reading skills. We think and talk about writing and reading, because everything we do is involved with them, like driving, if you don’t like to drive you do everything wrong, and it really affects you, or just simply staring at something. Is like we are reviewing everything and while we are doing it we are reading and thinking in our heads, is like we are writing an essay. I really hope that when students read my question, they see what my point was and why I did it that way. And my point is that we all have different interests but we can all use our interest to improve our reading, like me, I use magazines, and try to read everything as if it were in one. I think that girls will be more interested in my project because most of them like magazines. I think that if academic articles were more colorful, had pictures the articles will be more appealing and more interesting, but that is just my opinion. I am a visual person so that’s why I find magazines more attractive. With this magazine I’m trying to appeal students visually. For people that are not interested in magazines, but they have trouble reading school related articles maybe articles with images and colors would be more appealing to them. The difference between appeal and interest is that appeal is something that you’re attracted to, and interest is something that you want to learn and have more knowledge about, is simply curiosity.