For homework you were to write a short personal response to the following question. Please answer ALL parts of the question; it has two essential parts:
1. What is your 4-year goal concerning creative writing and the arts. Why did you enter this program (be honest, the idea is to "discover" truth through writing about it) and where do you want to take your writing in the next four years? (i.e. what is your long term goal concerning creative writing?)
2. What is your relationship with reading? What sorts of literary genres do you prefer? If you don't read, why not? If you do, what helps you read? If you are a skilled reader, what do you think caused you to be skilled? If you are a weak reader, why do you think you are a weak reader? Explore the concept of reading.
Please complete your response and turn it in for credit. Realize that incomplete work results in lower grades, etc. Learn to use lab time and home time efficiently.
Fundamentals of Reading
Please take notes in your journal. I will answer your specific questions next period.
• Reading is fundamental. All academic and social success rests on understanding "signs" and "significance" (Semiotics).
• Reading is not a passive activity. It takes work and effort to read.
• Keep in mind: you may NOT be the audience or “catcher” the author “pitches” his/her ball (story) to.
• Goal: reading for information and reading for understanding
• Reading/writing: learning and discovering (the art of reading includes the same sort of skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, memory, range of imagination, and intellectual analysis and reflection)
• Reading for Information: Some people prefer to read only for information. Cookbooks, newspapers, magazines, blogs or websites, etc. are all general examples of practical reading or informational reading.(the reader is considered superior to the “book”)
• Reading for Understanding: Some people prefer to read to understand or gain wisdom about life. Literature, poetry, creative writing, etc. are all examples of this kind of material. (The book is considered “superior” to reader)
• Reading is an act of going from a state of understanding less to a state of understanding more. Some people are better at doing this than others. It can be exhausting and difficult.
Levels of reading:
1. Elementary reading
2. Inspectional reading
3. Analytical reading
4. Syntopical reading (comparative reading)
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