Genre: School
Article: Taking time off school
Ways To Read!
The Genre I’m going to be talking about is school. School is a broad topic so I’m going to narrow it down. I’ve read a nytimes article on how taking a gap year from school can shape your life. The article is about a study on whether its good for teenages or adults to take a break off from school then continue after a year or so. This is a good article and there are plenty ways to go about reading this article whether you know it or not.
Sometimes when you go online and read different articles they are just so long and exaggerating. For example the article I'm reading is “ How taking a gap year can shape your life” it's a very long and have multiple paragraphs. Its several different way to approach this type of article. One way readers go about reading a text if It's way too long is too skim. Reading this article and using the technique skimming. For instance, in “Shelley Reids” SQ3R she states, you should look at starts, finishes, headers and topic sentences. That is another way of skimming. I’ve got to understand fastly that logic suggest “that many people who take a gap year get better jobs after college than people who don’t”. This technique helps you get the key points and the general idea without reading the whole article. It’s a quote under the header that says,
Looking back, adults who took time off before
or during college say they have no regrets.
What is Skimming?
- Enables you to cover vast amount of material rapidly
- Survey a text and get a general idea
- Breezing for its general gist
It's good to get in the writer’s perspective of writing. ( Reading Like A Writer ). This is a good reading strategy when reading an article because it helps you get into the author shoes and find out why he or she wrote this piece. This helps you understand why did the author structure the article a certain way. Why did the author say certain vocabulary words when he/she wrote the piece. You may want to know why the writer choose certain examples. This helps you connect with what you're reading as if you were the author. Using this technique helped me understand that using Obama’s daughter ( Malia Obama ) as an example of taking a break from school would grab the reader’s attention tremendously. You may start to think to yourself that it may not be that bad taking a year off from school if obama’s daughter is. This grabs the audience attention. When reading like a writer about articles, you can also understand why the author/writer used examples of different researches and surveys to come up the idea of how taking a gap year from school can shape your life.
Reading Like A Writer
- Reading a piece as if you wrote it
- Help you make similar decisions in your own writing
When reading certain articles you should always have doubts and disagrees. Even though most articles are true some include opinions. You should always ask yourself why should i believe this writer? Is what he/she say true? Many questions may go through your head as it should. You don't always have to agree with a writer about an article. Always ask yourself where did this information come from? You can't just read one writer’s article and just base it on their perspective. Don't always believe the writer. Argue with the writer as Zack would say. Reading this article from NYTIMES, I have plenty of disagreements. First, how can you say that it is smart to take a year off from school? You can’t conclude that if i take a year off from school I’ll be more successful. Thats sort of an opinion. Why can’t I attend school straight without taking a gap and still be successful? As a reader reading this piece, I know personal people for a fact that said that they’ll take a year off from school and got lazy and never went back.
Doubts And Disagrees
- Demand clear convincing claims
- Consider multiple perspectives
- Explore different reasonings
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