Week 2
These past two weeks have been a pain for me especially being in the hospital all last week due to a terrible fall during the ice storm. This is journal entry #1 for week 2.
My first impression when reading the textbook, “Literature a World of Writing,” is that it’s going to be boring and has lots of important information to tell me regarding about certain topics. The way I was taught at first was to read the whole chapter then go back and figure out the parts that I truly didn’t understand. Now days, I go after the information that is important, rather than, reading the whole thing without even understanding what it means. First of all, I tend to write all the unknown definitions and look them up before I even start reading. Once I reach to where I don’t understand the text then I go back and read closely and stop several times to talk about each individual sentence to understand the meaning of it. During my first stages of reading, I do tend to read as if it was a story but I knew that it would be a waste of time just because it is dealing with my English assignments. But during my free spare time, I would take the opportunity to read it as if it was a story. So that way I will occupy myself in a way that I will not be bored.
My first impression when reading the textbook, “Literature a World of Writing,” is that it’s going to be boring and has lots of important information to tell me regarding about certain topics. The way I was taught at first was to read the whole chapter then go back and figure out the parts that I truly didn’t understand. Now days, I go after the information that is important, rather than, reading the whole thing without even understanding what it means. First of all, I tend to write all the unknown definitions and look them up before I even start reading. Once I reach to where I don’t understand the text then I go back and read closely and stop several times to talk about each individual sentence to understand the meaning of it. During my first stages of reading, I do tend to read as if it was a story but I knew that it would be a waste of time just because it is dealing with my English assignments. But during my free spare time, I would take the opportunity to read it as if it was a story. So that way I will occupy myself in a way that I will not be bored.