Sunday, April 10, 2011

Reflective Essay: Project 3

My principal audience would be the editors of a book because they are the ones who design de the books, and my theory is “how does form of a book, affects the student learning”, so this project is for them, the editors, they are the one who publishes the books, and all the learning magazines, pamphlets, etc. I think they are only focus on putting  what is the important information on books, but not anyone knows how, because they just put it but not in that order that the student will understand, and I think they should be a way, cause not all the books are directed for the same gender, some are for kids, other for all type of students, since kindergarten to college students, so they have to make a analysis to which audience they are directed, and the editors also have to know what would be their goals in a book, not just put bunch of information in no order, they have to do a plan of how the will impact on their audience, but not all the editors are wrong, cause I have seen books that are well explain and they teach you step by step. And I think they should care, the largest market is the schools, since kindergarten to college, and they should take care of one opinion because we, the students, consequently are their principal buyers, and my theory is simple, just do researches to the students of the different topics that they do books, for a better work, that satisfies the student, and makes efficient a self study.

For this project I will do a formal letter, to send it to the editors, explaining the my theory, and I choose this cause is a formal way, and it´s so probably to read instead of another thing, and basically there is three parts in a formal letter:  the layout, style of language and the purpose.
I think that just with this three parts I will nail my theory, cause it would be a seriously letter, with a formal style of language and my purpose is giving them tips of how it has to be the form of a book for different type of students, since children thru college students, and the different types of topics, what to focus on each topic, so I think this is a good way to get to my audience that in this case are the editors of the books, and cause I know they are serious people I know this is a good way to catch them, so in this project I will focus on books that their main topics are math or physics cause this are the subjects that I am habitual to work, and in this letter I will send them a good example of one good book, that all is clear and step by step, and another example that is all messy and unclear, there is not problem if the book is all messy when you have a teacher cause the teacher is the intermediary and he knows what he is teaching because for something he is what he is, but when is time to study by your own, this is difficult and more is the book is not clear, and finally in this letter I will give them some advices of how it should be edited a book, step by step, with the more examples that it can be for all the cases of each problem, different kind of exercises that not only focus on the actual topic, but also on the topics that have seen previously, for keep practicing what the student had learned.

So in this project I am focus on editors, cause they are the ones in charge of giving the form style on a book, and I will send them a formal letter to letting them know what are what students are expecting on a book, of all different topics, but I am going to focus on books about math and physics, cause this are the ones I more use, and I know what are the better books of this kind, they have to be step by step and lots of examples for each chapter, like I explain previously on this project, and the connection for this project I think that the editors should take seriously this kind of opinion because, we the students are the biggest market for them, and the teachers, school staff, etc, are searching for books that are not too difficult for understand, because actually there is one system that is  boom gripping, the open system, and in this system they are not professors, well they are, but is not the same, cause they are not in front of you teaching how to solve problems, and online is so difficult to understand, so there is the need of good books that are well explain, cause imagine if the students are supported of a book that is a messy and unclear, they will not learn nothing, and this system will not have success, and this is just one good example of why do student needs books that are easy to understand also for the topics that are more difficult to understand, the editors should find the easier way to explain a problem, so a good book has to been good structured and not mix the topics, if they are not attached, mainly this are the main ideas of my project and I think that with this formal letter I will get them concerned on what they have to focus on their new books or in the new editions of the books that they already have, cause their principal goal, as the teachers, is to show the student how to solve different kind of problems by the more possible easier way it can be.  And my theory should gave them ideas to work on. 

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