In the passage, Dana Gioia tries to persuade her audience to believe that the decline of reading in America will have a negative effect on society. She thoroughly explains that reading and studying literature is a principal practice that all people should embrace, as it develops essential skills needed in the common workplace. She achieves this task through using evidence to support her claims, reasoning to develop ideas and connect to claims and evidence, and stylistic syntax and diction to add power to the ideas expressed. Gioia sites various examples and evidence to support her claims and findings.…
The author, Dana Gioia, argues in his article that the decline of reading in America will have a negative effect on society by using a combination of pathos-inducing diction and use of logos. This argument is organized by interspersing facts and cited logistics between paragraphs of persuasively worded claims that emphasizes the significance and benefits of literacy and laments the decline of interest in said literacy. The argument begins with a bold claim, where the author states that “... the interest young Americans showed in the arts - and especially literature - actually diminished” over the past century. Gioia phrases literature as an art form, highlighting its significance and appeal, and laments the interest of literature…
Overall my experience with reading has been forced, and limited and has lost its original glamour. For me what reading novels brings to other people, I can obtain through other means that are more appealing for my way of thinking. While I don’t enjoy the act of reading a 600 page mandatory novel, I do enjoy the conversations that it can cause. Such as the debating, and sometimes the arguments, that come from the material within the carefully thought out cover pages can be intriguing and rewarding. However, to say that books have influenced my thoughts about the world, or have made…
In the article “Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health” by Jen Christensen, it is stressed that being empathetic can help a person improve their relationships with others and really understand how other people feel. Studies show that “A work of fiction is a piece of consciousness that can pass from one mind to another and that can make it their own... Reading these books may enhance [the reader’s] emotional intelligence. That means reading books could improve [their] love life, [their] family life, [and their] relationships at work” (Christensen 1). This article goes in deeper about how one can improve their emotional intelligence by simply reading a fiction book.…
In summary, my future goal of becoming a Reading Interventionist in my school district is contingent on my focus upon being a lifelong learner. Part of that process involves my completion of an Ed. D. degree in Reading in Literacy. In order to be successful and to reach my goal, the Capella Career Center will serve as a significant support to me. Teaching reading is a love of mine, and I will be able to focus on that love through my work.…
When I was a little girl I use to hate reading, it’s not that it was hard I just didn’t want to take the time to read and build up my knowledge. I was the opposite child in school all the kids could read the small basic words and not the hard big words; as for me I was the opposite I could read the hard big words and not the small basic words. As I grew up I started liking reading more, then I had gotten to Chase middle I did so much reading that when I read a good book I couldn’t put it down I had to read it until the end. My freshmen year I had learned how to do N.E.R.D. words and it was the first time I had ever done it and it was hard for me to get the concept of it but I finally got it.…
I second all of the points brought up by Chris in his responce to your incredible writing. I was deeply moved by your literacy narrative. By simply having the pleasure of spending the past month or so with you, I would have never known about the part of your life that you wrote so passionately about in your literacy narrative. I often find it so intriguing that everyone has a story that resonates so deeply with him or her. That is exactly why I think large projects such as Humans of New York (HONY) or class assignments such as this one are so important.…
Reading a good book has always been a great way to escape from the real world and jump into a fictional world. From the article “Study: Reading a Novel Changes Your Brain” by Julia Ryan, it seems that reading can make lifelong changes to your brain. Emory University did a study with fMRIs on 21 students, to see how the reading would affect their brains. As it turns out, the left temporal cortex of the brain (receptivity and language) is heightened by reading! Therefore, when you hear the word “running”, you may think of yourself as if you were actually running.…
People everywhere throughout the world have wondered why is reading important. There are numerous benefits that comes from reading. Its a vital fundamental to function in todays society. We discover new things by reading. Without that essential day to day activities will become a source of frustration.…
Final American Literature paper The three works that I chose to write about for my final paper for this class are the “Way to Wealth” (1758) by Benjamin Franklin “The Raven” by Edger Allan Poe and “The legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. The reason that I chose to write about these three pieces is that they really stuck out to me the most in this class. The Way to Wealth stuck out to me one because I had never read it before so it was nice to read something new and it also made me think about what the word wealth actually means. Then I picked The Raven because it is one of my favorite of Edger Allan Poe’s work I love most of his work but The Raven is definitely my favorite.…
As far back as I can remember, reading has always been a tremendous part of my life. Growing up, my mother introduced reading as one of the most important skills I could learn. Throughout my childhood, my entire family constantly incorporated reading into my daily schedule by helping me complete word searches, reading books, or rehearsing the ABC’s. Every night before bed, my mother and I would read a page out of a children’s bible book called Blessings Every Day as opposed to the classic Green Eggs and Ham. Reading has taught me how to exercise my imagination, how to effectively communicate with others, and relieves my stress.…
Reading was something I was practically raised on as a child. My dad made sure that my younger sister and I were read to every single night before he tucked us in, passing down a tradition that he believed had aided in shaping his own childhood. I distinctly remember my simple mind roaming along in the lands of Narnia and Middle Earth as such books instilled in me a restless sense of adventure and a longing to learn. This longing drove me to read more and more on my own, all the while my father continued to read to me at a higher and more complex level, that at the time seemed unattainable. Yet books to me were journies completely separate from my own world and I could never seem to envision them as anything more than a source of entertainment.…
Dialogic reading is a technique used to encourage adult readers to prompt children during shared-reading time. According to Blom-Hoffman, O 'Neil-Pirozzi, Volpe, Cutting, & Bissinger (2006), having the child be the storyteller and the adult the facilitator to the child’s verbalizations is the main goal of dialogic reading. Prompting is a way to guide children into the direction of storytelling during shared-reading, while developing print knowledge and phonological awareness, all emergent literacy skills. Emergent literacy skill is the knowledge of reading and writing a child has before they are formally taught how to read and write. Sim, Berthelsen, Walker, Nicholson, and Fielding-Barnsley (2014), in their study held three types of intervention:…
Reading Memoir John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, stated,” Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” Actually, reading books helps me to explore the world. When I was just a little girl, I loved reading fairy tales which brought me to many vicarious thrilling adventures, and when growing up, non-fiction books taught me how to become a good person. Besides that, reading has brought me to many various levels of emotions, such as joy, love, hate, fear, and sorrow. Some stories not only make me feel euphoric with happy endings, but they also make me feel despondent when a character’s deep sorrow touched my heart.…
As of today, Reading and Writing has impacted our lives dramatically. Reading impacts many aspects of life: it promotes cognitive function, which helps ward off diseases like Alzheimer 's, enhances knowledge of different topics and reduces stress and anxiety ("How Does Reading Affect Lives?" Reference). Writing helps our memory and helps us to effectively convey memorable information to others via the art of storytelling ("How Does Writing Affect Us?" Lifehack RSS.) Reading and Writing has had a big impact on my life.…