Sunday, January 9, 2011
Spring 2011 Composition II Classes
Welcome students. We'll be using this blog as a gathering place for course information and research accumulation. When posting, please be sure to identify yourself by your first name, last initial and section number so that you can receive credit for posting while protecting your private information. Best regards and hope to hear from you soon.
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Pascal P., Section 2
ReplyDeletehttp://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=2406
This article focuses on using an approach that will engage students to read. Considering that some will encounter a reluctance to read, research suggests that an attempt to improve their literacy by discussing topics relevant to an individual's goals and interests will be helpful. Thus, Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs have been implemented in both elementary and secondary schools in order to promote this effort.
Moreover, the article seems relevant because it emphasizes the importance of having an applicable purpose for a task, whether it is to be able to enhance literacy in an engaging career environment or in a writer's discourse.
Matthew H Section 29
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/business/media/26adnews.html?_r=1&scp=7&sq=literacy&st=cse
The article describes a public service campaign sponsored by the Library of Congress. This campaign includes several advertisments featuring the child book character Curious George. Each ad encourages parents to read to their young children to "...inspire a lifelong love of reading."
This article appears to be relevant because it seems to suggest that part of becoming literate for some is seeing and hearing the action of reading. Listening to a parent read inspires a child to become literate and read for themselves.
Khemjai Harkissoon Section 29
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html
This article points a girl, Nadia, who spend quite a few hours surfing the internet. While she surfs the internet she checks her email, plays games, and reads stories. Her mother prefers her to read books, but Nadia is an A/B student and her mother is just glad that she is reading something.
What this article is trying to get to is that internet reading is not the same as book reading. In my opinion I get out more from internet reading than I do from reading books just because I can read all the books that are "books" on my computer thanks to technology (invention of e-books) and all the articles on the internet are also displayed on my computer.
I believe that the more you read the better you are at speech and literacy but that is not concrete evidence. I might use this as my topic for my research paper.
Katie Kardok
ReplyDeleteENC 1102
Section 29
http://education-portal.com/articles/Grim_Illiteracy_Statistics_Indicate_Americans_Have_a_Reading_Problem.html
This article explains how America has a reading problem, and if our society does not take care of this problem soon we are going to have to pay the price. The article even states that twenty percent of high school seniors graduating can be classified as illiterate. The author of this article comes to the conclusion that there is something wrong with the way that children in American schools are being taught.
This article is important because if we as a society do not take care of this illiteracy problem, soon our country could regress instead of progress as a whole. Being literate is probably the most important thing to have in order to be successful and smart with anything you intend to do in your life.
James Brooks
ReplyDeleteSection 2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26413788/
New Orleans confronts low literacy rates
This artical explains how over 40 percent of adults in New Orleans do not have the literacy skills for basic goverment forms, which posed a great problem after hurricane Katrina. This has made the relief effort even more challenging with goverment agencies not able to process everyone's claims. New Orleans does not have a high literacy rate and many adults do not have the skills to fill out a basic motor vehical form ar other documents.
This article is important because it demonstrates how some cities in the US are having a real epidemic with low literacy. If adults cannot fill out highier level documents, families are not going to get the benefits that are being offered after disasters. Much more needs to be done to rid low literacy rates in major US cities.
Russell Kupke
ReplyDeleteSection 2
http://www.denverpost.com/rss/ci_17038068?source=rss&flv=1
This article explains how one library is starting to teach early literacy skills to younger children. The library staff hopes to give the kids a better chance to succeed in school. They do this by making the learning fun for the kids, hoping that what they learn now will make it easier on them in the future.
This article is important to literacy because it shows some new ideas in how to help teach the younger students vital information that they will need down the road. This article presents that they start really young in hopes that it will make it easier on the kids to learn these vital skills and enjoy doing them.
Brianna H Section 2
ReplyDeletehttp://www.go-learning.org/go-article/64-early-literacy.html
This article describes the importance of literacy in children. It suggests that it's not only important that children learn to leave but that they grow up in an environment surrounded by literacy. It stresses the importance of building associations for children with literacy and pleasure, so that as they grow older they can continue their pleasure seeking.
This is relevant because it's the basis for how we start to learn things. It is simply stating that literacy is important to a child's mind because psychologically speaking, growing up without it will keep them from gaining anything in the future.
Kristen A. Section 0029
ReplyDeleteClarke, Lane studied a group of students their fourth grade year and fifth grade year. Clarke studied their discussion groups and how the students positioned themselves in these literature discussions, and if gender and social influences can influence the students participation in the discussion. Clarke discovered that the dynamic of the discussion changed from the students fourth grade year where the boys were more dominant in discussion, to the students fifth grade year where girls were more dominant. He mainly used positioning, voicing, and power to analyze the students.
It's relevant because it shows how gender and social influences can change how we view certain literacy, and how we interact with it, and also with each other.
Alexandria Perez. Section 0029
ReplyDeletehttp://www.caliteracy.org/economic/
This article relates literacy to economics. Literacy is not just a personal problem, it affects the nation. The more illiterate a person is, the less money they are likely to make. With less money they cannot buy as many products and give back to the economy. Another example the article presented was without the proper understand of how to use insurance policies work, and how to care for one’s self, unpaid hospital bill are passed to other citizens.
This article is important because it stresses the importance of national literacy. Just because you are literate doesn’t stop you from having to pay for those who are illiterate. It shows the importance of educating others and helping the nation as a whole.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/01/07/college.students.lack.scientific.literacy.study.finds
ReplyDeletefrances franceschi
This article discusses how a large majority of college student lack scientific literacy. The basic fundamentals of science such as physics and biology are concepts most students roaming campus do not understand or comprehend. When students were asked of the breathing process of climate control the majority either could not answer correctly or form sentences to describe these process. The articles author believes instructors should Instructors should help students understand that the use of such "every day, informal reasoning" is very important in life.