Annie Pitts
Ms. Molyneaux
H English D
April 15, 2015
Reading
used to come along easily for me as a young child without the many distractions
of my high speed surroundings and other priorities. However to be a good reader requires full attention
and willingness to give full effort and time into analyzing the text.
Throughout
my years as a high school student I have gotten into the habit of blowing off
reading assignments and rarely participating in class due to both indifference
towards my reading and fear of speaking in class discussions. To become a stronger reader I need to keep up
with my reading assignments and become more focused on what I am actually
reading. Monitoring my progress and understanding of plots, themes, and ideas
as I read will better help me to also speak up during class discussions and
have the courage to back my ideas up with textual evidence.
I would
say I read differently depending on the task at hand. For example I usually will read the questions
first then look at main ideas to answer those questions. For novels I read in order obviously since
the storyline is meant to go that way.
My reading strategies and test taking skills are strong, but my downfall
is time management.
In my
experience from this year I have learned how to analyze text more especially by
identifying symbols and motifs throughout novels. My annotations were stronger and more helpful
come time of writing a paper than last year.
Cornell notes, on the other hand, kind of made reading more of a drag
and less enjoyable since it felt much more like an assignment than reading for
knowledge and ideas, so I didn’t like that all that much.
Overall
this article reminded me of the importance of paying attention and actually
understanding your reading. This comes
along with time management also, because the more time you give yourself to absorb
the material, the better analyzing and understanding of the text you will have.
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