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Possible Essay Aproaches

September 21, 2018 kstenstrom

In his “Open Letter to High School Students about Reading”, Bean says that students are challenged with focusing on deep reading. They are challenged with adjusting their reading strategies for different purposes, determining the argument of what they are reading, difficulty seeing themselves in conversation with the author, lacking cultural literacy, and having difficulty with vocab and syntax. I agree with most of these although, I have never experienced a problem with changing my strategies for different texts and purposes….

Week 1 Writing Assignment Final Draft

September 12, 2018 kstenstrom

After reading both Patrick Sullivan’s, “An Open Letter to High School Students about Reading”, and Scott L. Newstock’s, “How to Think Like Shakespeare”, it became clear that both surface reading and deep reading have their own roles in the classroom. Sullivan tends to paint a negative picture of surface reading, asserting that it only allows a student to memorize, recall, and be shallowly engaged with a topic. While these statements are true, Sullivan also seems to imply that surface reading…

Week 1 Writing Assignment 1st Draft

September 11, 2018 kstenstrom

After reading both Patrick Sullivan’s “An Open Letter to High School Students about Reading” and Scott L. Newstock’s “How to Think Like Shakespeare” it became clear that both surface reading and deep reading have their own roles in the classroom. Sullivan tends to paint a negative picture of surface reading asserting that it only allows a student to memorize, recall, and be shallowly engaged with a topic. While these statements are true Sullivan seems to imply that surface reading is…

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