Skimming

Apart from the skimming and scanning reading strategies, there are other ones the reader has to use too in order to get a better comprehension of the text. On the one hand, we have the strategies which are part of the top down approach: inferring, making connections, predicting, visualizing, schemata, and context clues. The first strategy known as inferring refers to the process of “reading between the lines” (Moore, n./d.); this process basically consists on using the information available in a…

Charles A. Lindbergh: Inspiring Aviators throughout the world Interviewer: The sun is shining down and reflecting off the lake. I am now lounging outside on a wood deck with a peaceful view of a lake waiting for Charles A. Lindbergh to arrive. Since Charles loves the outdoors he insisted we meet outside and I now understand why. It’s the absolute perfect day to conduct an interview; the sun is shining and it’s a beautiful 78 degrees out. It’s me, Camille, from Under The Stars newspaper. This…

The Internet has made it very easy look up whatever we need. The Internet has become the latest source of transactive memory. In a study conducted at Columbia University, scientists have found that “the internet is changing the nature of what we remember, making us more likely to recall where the facts are rather than the facts themselves” (Sparrow, Liu, and Wegner). All of the data on the World Wide Web is not “overwhelming,” but what is overwhelming is our inability to store and use it…

It is predicted that successful language learners have the ability of tolerance and adaptation to unknown factors and vague segments of a new language. Among learners there are several learning styles that we can point out the one of important one which is ambiguity tolerance (AT) and defined as “ the degree to which you are cognitively willing to tolerate ideas and propositions that run counter to your own belief system or structure of knowledge” (Brown, 2000: 119). As Ely (1989) mentioned,…

style and conventions. Making and using the notes from observation, lectures and sources of information is skill that I can develop all the time during my course. I am improving my reading skills by using different ways of sorting information like skimming and scanning that I can select what is relevant to my work process from what is irrelevant. Reading and writing for academic purpose improve my communication skills. Another great skill is a time management. This requires a self- discipline to…

In Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry,” he uses imagery to describe reading a poem with activities people are familiar with. For example, in line 2-3, he claims he wants the reader to “Hold it up to the light / like a color slide.” A color slide is a small rectangle of film that — held up to a projector — reveals an image. If the reader took a written poem and held it up to the light, there wouldn’t be much of a difference. However, if they looked at the poem as a metaphorical color slide,…

Writing has always been a struggle for me for as long as I can remember. I find it difficult to put my thoughts on a paper, especially if I have to do it in another language. Some people think that as long as they can speak a language or communicate with other people, it is enough. However, these people are totally wrong. People do not only need to speak a language fluently, but they also have to be able to write it. That’s the reason why I started focusing on my writing ability. I brought some…

In the first attempt of reading (skimming and scamming) my original thought was the poem was describing a woman's love for her child. In this poem Bradstreet compares her book to that of an “ill-formed” child that does not deserve to be displayed. She describes the book to be something she is ashamed of, yet passionate about. The tone she seems to project is empathetic. Bradstreet sympathies for her book knowing how impossible perfection within the book is unobtainable yet she still take pride…

earlier, the narrator places a large emphasis archeology and because of that, historical content takes a backseat. Oliver should have included the point of view of other historians (similar to other documentaries). Another thing that did not work was skimming over topics that include warfare. There is no doubt that the Vikings engaged in a significant amount of was that would brand them as medieval terrorists. It is puzzling that Oliver chose to skim passed this aspect of Viking society.…

The Outlook on Standard Testing For many decades now, Standardized Test have been recognized and known as a “mutli-billion dollar industry”. The first test was in Imperial China not long after this was standard testing the next big thing in the United States. This idea of the test, rose up in the Industrial Revolution time era. Boston, Massachusetts was the first place in the United States to actually try out the standardized test. These test were used to test the students and teachers…