The active reading style with these texts was something that I did not find effective. I was analyzing certain things more than others but at the same time I was only looking for connections, I wasn’t actually reading the text.
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In Bains book “What the Best College Students Do”, he states that there are 3 kinds of learners in the world. Strategic, surface, and deep learners. Most often or not people are surface learners, and if not that they are strategic, like myself, and then there are the deep learners that Bain argues everyone should be like. Bain states “They can become bored with the school and suffer from major bouts of anxiety and even depression. They often don’t enjoy taking on new problems. Most important, they don’t learn much”. This is something that happened to me as I was told my whole life that it’s the grade that matters. I picked up ways to finish math problems easier or write a paper fast so that I could just get the work done, never retaining a lot of it. This is something that I’m hoping to work on over the next 4 years is to absorb all of the knowledge that I can and find new ways to become a better learner.
The first workplace I tried was my RA’s room, I tried to work in here because the lights were really calming and it was cool atmosphere. Although I ended up zoning out more than actually working.
The second workplace that I tried was the kitchen at my friends dorm, it was super busy and lots of noise with everything going on. Although I found it to be very helpful because it forced me to get my work done and stay focused on what I was doing not other people.
Also looking at some workspace of famous authors, they tight smaller cluttered desk was very similar to mine. Doing this I have all that I could ever need right there next to me.
For this assignment of annotating I highlighted everything that I thought could be important, this is what I usually do because personally I’d rather highlight too much than too little. Also at the end I put down my personal opinion so I can come back and look right at that If I want to know how I was feeling.
Through my years at school I have had a growth mindset when it came to most things. Sports epically, but focusing more on school there was always a few things I was stuck on. Ever since I was a kid I’ve cruised through school, I never once went out of my way to face a challenge, I always backed down away from it. Now being in college mostly all the work that I have gotten has been challenging one way or another, therefore I am finding myself wanting to back away from each challenge.
While doing this I really only did some organizational pieces and basic surface level revision. For some reason editing this paper was very difficult for me to do, looking back onto it there are defiantly more things that I need to work on. Also, I’ll be focused on finding some new techniques to help me sit down and edit all of my papers a lot better.
Peer reviewing is always something that I find difficult to do. I go through the paper and see if I can find any grammar issues. After that I reread the paper and try to find a few things that the person can improve upon as well as things that they did well. One thing that I noticed with some of the papers that I looked at including my own was citing sources was something we all had different ways of doing.
The comments that I got on my paper were very helpful pointing out some things that I didn’t put into my paper. Most were about the structure and how I could change some of my wording to better support my argument.
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