Skimming

brains without getting into a deeper thought process to analyse the information. As consequence, we are left with someone who barely knows anything and is basing their knowledge of the few points they got out of a source. At times I’ve been guilty of skimming through a source of information to only find a certain detail or answer but the same time it depends on what your focus is for example, maybe your using this quick method to find answers for a game or in some cases to fill out a “Fill in…

reading online on the traditional sense” (Carr 317). People use online sources as a form of “skimming activity” (Carr 316). They do not read the entire article, but they move from one source to the other, reading “titles, contents pages and abstracts,” to look for relevant information they might need, yet this leads them to lose focus (Carr 316-317). Carr argues that people lose the benefits of reading as skimming through…

Although the process may take a little bit, in the book Hate is My Neighbor written by Tom Alibrandi and Bill Wassmuth you can see the spiral of injustice present in every major event. The spiral of injustice, a way to track hate crimes committed, can be seen in everything read in the first third of this novel, from the beating of the Puerto Rican boy to the death threats against Scott Wiley. One quote from this book shows how advanced the spiral has gotten, “The Puerto Rican boy went sprawling…

Using public records about individual citizens, published in official registers such as electoral rolls Stealing bank or credit cards, identification cards, passports, authentication tokens ... typically by pickpocketing, housebreaking or mail theft Skimming information from bank or credit cards using compromised or hand-held card readers, and creating clone cards Using 'contactless' credit card readers to…

“I Am So Totally Digitally Close to You” written by Clive Thompson and “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr both delineate how technology has changed the way individuals interact with others and the way it influences ones point of view. Carr and Thompson also contrast because Carr finds with technology becoming a predominant source of information, the ability to focus and think critically is hindered while, Thompson shows how the use of social media on a daily basis can control lives.…

as (OK Magazine); media stereotypes all ages and natural origin backgrounds. In the advertising business alone more than 2,000 of these viewers are barely meeting adulthood, most under the legal age of 21 are viewing these ads while watching TV, skimming through a magazine; or even browsing the web. These…

Nicholas Carr, the author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, makes the argument that the internet or “Net” is causing a decline in the ability of people to read and absorb information. On one hand Carr expresses that the “Web has been a godsend” to him as a writer (532), on the other hand he is critical of the Net. He gives examples and testimonies of how he, and some esteemed colleagues, can no longer read through long literary works without distraction, all due to the internet and the…

Project essay 2 Mortimer Adler's work of "How to Read a Book" brings up many interesting viewpoints and idea's on effective reading strategies. The differences between sitting down as a kindergartner reading a Dr. Seuss, and a collegiate scholar finding evidence on a claim he must either prove or disprove is an entirely different game to say the least. The differences, according to Adler, are broken into four unique reading levels, elementary, inspectional, analytical, and syntopical. Each of…

Their wings skimming the water heading right towards our decoys. My heart is pounding faster and faster. Dave yells, “KILL EM.” I jump up, shoot my shells and then just like that it was over. I said, “Is that all.” Dave replied, “We are just getting started.” I sat…

There has been so many times that I have taken a test and didn't get to finish, it doesn't matter as much when it's just a regular test in class, but when it comes to assessments like the ACT and SAT it does. All students should be asked if they need more time. Intelligence cannot be accurately measured by a test that was not completed. If a student needs more time they put their name down on a signup sheet. The questions they have answered are graded, the ones not answered are replaced with…