Understanding doesn’t mean that you can suddenly speak the language.
It all made sense in the end.
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- Sep 2019
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ualearn.blackboard.com ualearn.blackboard.com
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I knew my fear was gettingthe best of me
He was afraid people judging him
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Call me sensitive, but I couldn’t help but take it personally
His teacher seems to be very assertive and upfront.
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Love? I love a good steak cooked rare. I love my cat, and I love ...” My sistersand I leaned forward, waiting to hear out names. “Tums,” our mother said. “I loveTums.
Repitition of the word love.
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How often is one asked what he loves inthis world
When you think about this question you realize that nobody actually does ask you this.
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I’m notcompletely in the dark, yet I understood only half of what this woman was saying.
From what he has been saying, he seems like he is nervous to embarass himslef infront of the instuctor and class.
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- Aug 2019
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drive.google.com drive.google.com
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word “performance”
This paragraph is about the diction and why they used the words they did.
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those questions I encouraged you to try to answer before you start reading.
These questions are all very important, you could write thesedown on the front of the paprer, then when you're done look back and see if you still have the same answers.
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Deciding whether you liked or disliked something is only about you
People can see a story different from you and can interpret two differnt messages.
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word choice and tone/language of the writing seem appropriate.
Diction and tone are very important in writing.
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Knowing ahead of time what kind of writing assignments you will be asked to complete can really help you to read like a writer.
This will help you be more organized and you"ll have a better idea of what you will be working on. The best way is to first start brainstorming.
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Do you know the author’s purpose for this piece of writing?•Do you know who the intended audience is for this piece of writing?
Dont just read to read, read to understand the details and understand what is actually going on.
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This is because most writing instructors are so focused on teaching writing that they forget to show students how they want them to read
We were obviously all taught to read, but we were never taught to read to make us better at writing or how to read so we get better at writing.
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examining the details in order to see how it was made
Reading the details helps a lot for understanding the bigger picure of the story.
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We read a recipe to learn how to bake lasagna. We read the sports page to see if our school won the game, Facebook to see who has commented on our status update, a history book to learn about the Vietnam War, and the syllabus to see when the next writing assignment is due
All examples of how we read to get information without even realizing that we are reading or how we are reading.
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Then you can go one step further and imagine what different choices the author might have made instead, and what effect those different choices would have on readers
Try to think why the author wrote what he did and what else could he have done.
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carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing.
I need to do a better job of this because I tend to skip words easily, then I have no idea what I am reading about.
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I read all the time. I read for my classes and on the computer and sometimes for fun, but I never really thought about the important connections between reading and writing, and how reading in a particular way could also make me a better writer
I dont read a lot, but I can see where he is coming from. Reading more, teaches you how to become a better writer because you see how words are used and the structure of the story if you reed sentence by sentence. It makes writing easier because you are familiar.
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on each of the theater’s four floors, and we all passed the time by sitting quietly in the back, reading books with tiny flashlights. It’s not easy trying to read in the dim light of a theatre
Bunn uses imagery to describe what it was like sitting in the theater. He does this so the audience can get a vidid image of what it looks like and fesls to be there.
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