I Am An Avid Reader

I Am An Avid Reader
I have always been an avid reader; from the point I could read all the way up into my teenage years. My reading level was always higher than my
classmates. I enjoyed reading, I loved the way the words could take me away from what was going on in my life. If I was having a bad day, I could
read a story that would lift my spirits. I knew that reading was helping me in school, it made me more confident in my abilities. I was comfortable
reading aloud in class because I knew that I wouldn't stumble over words and embarrass myself. I was always a great student, never had a bad
grade in my life. I never had to work very hard to get good grades. This all changed on October 18th 2014. I had played softball for almost nine
years. On the night of October 18th I was catching in a scrimmage. Looking around I could see my teammates standing in their designated
positions. They were all standing in ready position waiting for the ball to be hit. It was the second inning and I watched as the batter walked up to
the plate. She kicked at the dirt making dust fly up and hit me in the face. She set herself up and was prepared for the pitch to come. I looked
towards my coach to get the sign for what pitch to tell the pitcher to throw. My pitcher was throwing a lot harder than usual. She threw the pitch that
caused the largest downhill fall of my life. It was a foul line drive that tipped right off the top of the bat and straight into my head. I remember the
slight sound of the ball tipping off
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Who Am I As A Reader?
Who am I as a reader? Throughout this semester I had the opportunity to read interesting literary works also to think of the subjects that the authors
addressed and of the techniques used in their presentation, which meant an interesting experience for me and I consider myself literary enriched. What
impressed me most of all works studied, was the theme of irony, flipped in works like Desiree's Baby, and The Story of An Hour, by Kate Chopin and
The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane. As a reader, you can imagine the end of the story in a certain way, naturally, assumed by anyone, but at the end,
you are surprised by a tragic, unfortunate finish. Also, I must admit that I was deeply impressed by Shirley Jackson's work, The Lottery. I always
opted for the tradition to be carried on in the family and in society, but reading this work, I realized that we often inherit bad habits for ourselves and
our families and that it is important for young generation to pay attention to what kind of habits they inherited from previous generation, because
sometimes, there traditions can bring not only physical death like in Jackson's story, but also moral or social death. In the two stories of Chopin,
both, Louise in The Story of An Hour, and Desiree in Desiree's Baby, are two women who are struggling in their marriages. Both loved their
husbands, but one wanted freedom, and one was forced to freedom. Each woman 's outcome satisfied no one, not even the reader. In The Story of An
Hour,

Describe Yourself As A Writer
When I was young, I always knew that college is important to the major that you choose. When I see my aunt, I ask many questions about college and
how it is like. I thought it would be challenging and stressful. Then it was stressful because I want to improve my writing. When I see myself as a
writer, I think about the process, then I consider the improvements I need to make, and lastly the strengths I have.
First, I think about the writing process. When the teacher or professor give me an essay, I start right away. I start right away because I don't want my
work to be late and I have other assignment to do for other classes. Once I read the prompt, I start my outline to know what to write in my essay. I just
think about what I know and don't know, then put it onto paper. For the outline, I will do sentences or sometimes words only. It depends on the topic
or essay I write. I find the outline is a helpful way to get started.
After the outline, I start researching the topic. I use the internet for the research. I use it because it is helpful. It is helpful because I take examples of
how to start. I use google and look at images of essays. It provides inspiration for the essay....show more content...
I always on task when it come to course work and due dates. , I am creative and very helpful with other. I do not being behind with my school work
because it will effect my goal that i am trying to improve. A quote that I heard from Peter Elbow is "Don't stop for anything" Peter is try to explain
is just work your way through and don't go back. I think what he is try to tell me that everyone have a way to get successful in college and school. I
feel As a result, I believe that anyone can get to there goals, so when you're outside of school you will feel awesome and and not be

The Uncommon Reader Analysis
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett is an eye opener to many in the modern age as millennials like myself who have dispersed of reading and
have moved on to the modern age of technology. The Uncommon Reader demonstrates how reading can attract many non–readers and break certain
stereotypes toward reading. As someone who was an avid reader and has gradually left the books for videos and social media. I hope to rediscover
a connection with reading unlike the dying age of readers in this era. Reading growing up has always fascinated me because with every book you
never know what to expect, further leading you to continue reading. Having this said, as time went on I grew fonder of reading and started to explore
many genres(fiction, nonfiction, fantasy). Books became a world where I could escape and embody these characters who were facing many obstacles
or adventures. By reading The Uncommon Reader I surprisingly found myself reflecting the Queen, she ultimately found herself disregarding the
power of reading and soon turned out to become fond of it. Even though the Queen led a life of royal responsibilities, through reading she gathered
a new perspective of the world. Having this said myself at a young age being only able to gather very minimal experience from the world, reading
allowed me to discover certain backgrounds that were being conveyed from different points of view. Reading is more than just words on paper it is the
idea that one can challenge the normalities of

Fish Reader Response Criticism
Fish's Reader Response Criticism is composed of two interdependent ideas: first, that the meaning of texts is shaped by the reading experience itself,
and second, that these meanings cannot be judged to be correct or incorrect, but merely belonging to one "interpretive community" or another. The
first idea may be identified as the executive aspect of Reader Response Criticism because it analyzes the act of reading, while the second idea is the
epistemological aspect of the theory because it circumscribes the knowledge we can acquire about a text to the merely relative. Studied independently,
each aspect of Reader Response Theory offers by itself strong arguments countervailing the formalist stance of the New Critics. But as we will see,
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This excerpt begins at the level of innate human concepts (flesh) and proceeds through the more concrete level of medical terminology (muscles,
blood, epidermis) and onwards through an evocative metaphor (red cloud). Before the reader reaches the final clause ("whose soul is lightning"), he has
built up an expectation that a culminating trope will be used to close the sentence, as is usual. Instead, the fragment ends with "whose soul is
lightning" which refers not to the red cloud, but to "the flesh itself." In other words, the red cloud is not the object of the concluding clause, but a
"psychological multiplier:" the reader sees a red cloud (associated with storms) and then sees lightning exacerbated by the immediately preceding
image. Now the reader possesses a clear mental picture of the passionate flesh, but the strange syntax (both in French and English) leaves him uncertain
about what exactly the text has said: is lightning the soul of the flesh? Is the soul the lightning emitted by the flesh? This is an important point–is the
soul passion? Or is passion simply one of several manifestations of the soul? Yourcenar has deliberately shrouded this discussion in complex syntax
because the distinction itself confounds us. If you are lost as to what exactly the text says right now, Yourcenar has achieved her aim. Now take a look
at Grace Frick's artful translation of the same text:
The flesh itself, that amazing instrument of muscles, blood, and skin, that

Examples Of Reader Response Theory
Reader Response Theory Reader–response theory identifies the reader as an affective agent who imparts real exist–ence and life to the work,
completing its meaning through interpretation. Reader– response criti–cism argues that literature should be viewed as art in which each reader creates
his or her own–most likely unique, text–related performance. I am using Wolfgang Iser and Stanley Fish's takes on Reader Response for my study.
Iser's Theory of Reception and Transactional Reader Response Theory According to Iser, any literary text which is a product of the Writer's intentional
acts part–ly controls the response of a reader; however, this includes an abundance of gaps. In order to comprehend more clearly, the reader must take
action in active participation in attempting to cre–atively fill these gaps with the given information of the test put before him; Thereby allowing the
Reader and the text to undergo a transactional process. Iser speaks of the Actual reader in distinction to the Implied reader who is formed within a text
and expected to react and respond in specific ways to the response inducing structure of the text. The actual reader, however, is an individual with its
own personal experiences accumu–lated as baggage wherein responses actually are continuously and inevitably changed...show more content...
What lies behind Fish's thinking is a strong view of the social construction of reality; as he firmly believes that knowledge is not objective but always
socially conditioned. All that one thinks and knows is an interpretation that is only made possible by the social context in which one lives. For Fish the
very thought one thinks are made possible by presuppositions of the community in which one lives and furthermore the socially conditioned individual,
which all individuals are, cannot think beyond the limits made possible by the culture. This culture is referred to by Fish as an interpre–tive

Reader Strengths
My strengths and challenges as a reader are very common with my other fellow classmates. Some of my strengths I have as a reader are that it
doesn't take long for me to get into the book I'm reading. I begin to gain interest which keeps me wanting to read more of the book to find out what
happens next. Now, for a challenge of mine as a reader would have to be not getting distracted from the things that are occurring around me. I must
have it quiet wherever I'm located in order for me to fully understand and effectively read the material. Goals I have set for this semester, have been set
ever since I started high school writing research papers. I've always wanted to write a well written paper while having mastered the art of paraphrasing.

I Am A Writer And A Reader
It is my pleasure to have the chance taking your writing course this quarter. I have learned to become both a eligible writer and a reader in your class.
Before I came in this course, I was scared to write since I am not a native speaker. I worried about my grammar when I write every sentence. Once I
finished one paragraph for an essay, I would always go back to check subject–verb agreement error or verb tense error, which are most common error
that used to appear in my writing pieces. To be honest, I really don't have any passion on writing. All I used to do in an English class is to fulfill my
duty. However, you sparked my interest in writing since the first time I attended your class. I still remember that you let us write down "Yes" or
"No" to answer if we are good writers or not in our first class. I wrote down "No", but in my heart I really want to change this answer after you pull
out the slides. It writes, "The business behind the business: Time–management, Motivation, and self–belief." Since then, I realized that self–belief must
be an important thing that can encourage me to be a good writer. And now, I am ready to show you what I have really learned form your ten–week
classes.
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From the first project, Orwell's imitating piece, I have learned how to communicate with the audience efficiently. Orwell's writing style is very simple
and brief. His book has no rubbish, every word and every sentence make the context mean

My Experience Of Reading
While I was in middle school in sixth grade I actually didn't know how to read books or any story my teachers would give me. As I was reading
through the passages they would give me, I noticed that while I read a story it wouldn't stick to my head. I then told myself that it is going to be
difficult to read passages since nothing would click in my head. There were times where the teacher would have the students and I take mini
quizzes and I would hardly understand on what the reader was talking about. I would fail the quizzes due to the reason that I never gained much
knowledge in reading. Articles and stories would always be tough for me to read since I didn't have many experience in reading. Therefore, half of
sixth grade my teacher whom was named Ms. Soto which was an English teacher had really made reading easier for me as the semester went by. I
had told her I was having difficulties in reading and she gladly helped me out. Every time I needed help with a problem from the story she was
gladly there to help me. For example, the many things she would help me out with was having to stay after school for about an hour reading poems,
articles and short passages from books she would give me. She also had me read magazine pages every three times a week to better my
understanding of what I'm reading. I then was told that it would be a good opportunity to come in on Saturdays for reading to better my knowledge in
what I'm reading. With all the help from my sixth–grade teacher

Literature Review: Reader Response Criticism
Chapter II Literature Review Reader Response Criticism Literary criticism is an activity of natural human response to the literature. Endraswara
(2003, p.116) said that literary work is a phenomenon which is concrete by the reader. The statement is in accordance with the theory of reader
response which focuses on the activity of the readers rather than the author or the structure of the text itself. Reader response focuses on the reader
and their role in the making of a literary work. The text does not exist without the reader and there will be no meaning in literary text if there is no
interaction between the text and the reader itself. The act of reader is important since they are the active participant which produces the meaning from
the literary text, while the kinds of responses itself such as; summarizing the text, analyzing them or relating the text story to their on experiences.
Reader response takes literature exists not as a printed page but as a transaction between the physical text and the act of reader in using their mind. It
attempts to describe what occur in the reader's mind while interpreting a text and reflects that reading into creative writing process....show more
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It is called aesthetic response because, although it is brought about by the text, it brings into play the imagination and percpective faculties of the
reader. Iser also stated "I call it aesthetic response because it stimulates the reader's imagination, which in turn gives life to the intended effects."
Aesthetic response talks not only about the interaction between text and reader, but also the unique imaginative capacity that the reader brings into the

Reading As a Reader
My experience with reading started as most do. I was exposed to the easy–readers that every little tot has seen. Obviously, I learned to read and write in
kindergarten and beyond; I owe some thanks to the teachers of my early years. I was never much of a reader when I was a younger child. I read
from time to time but never constantly. If I regret one thing from my childhood, it will be that I never read enough. In a sense, I have taken it upon
myself now to compensate for the lack of literature in my life when I was a boy. Towards the end of my sophomore year, I began reading books
semi–regularly. Previously, I had an interest in politics and wanted to learn more so I would always read news articles and Wikipedia pages. The
summer between sophomore and junior year I read only half a dozen books or so. It's safe to say I wasn't exactly bookish. Starting Mr. Boyle's class,
our summer reading assignment was The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I really did enjoy the book, and I have revisited it since. Yet it was the
beginning of junior year that I began reading at the rate I do today. I can definitely attribute some of it to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. This book
was assigned to us by Mr. Boyle, and it remains a favorite to me today. I'm not here to give a synopsis or a critique of the book, but the importance of
literature is a central motif (to put it lightly). I suppose it was a combination of Bradbury and spare time that lead me to take to

Reader Response Theory By Louise Rosenblatt
The Reader Response Theory emerged as a reaction against the New Criticism or formalistic approach, which focused on the text, finding all the
meaning, the value in it and regarding everything else as extraneous, including readers. Despite the ideas of the Reader Response in the 1920's, the late
Louise Rosenblatt pioneered the Reader Response theory. She was a literary theorist and an English Educator. In herwriting, Literature as Exploration
written in 1938, she emphasizes that the readers play an important role in the life of any piece of literature. According to Rosenblatt, "A novel or a
poem or a play remains merely ink spot on a paper until a reader transform them into a set of meaningful symbols" (1985, 25). It is through the work of
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It allows for inferences and insights by the reader
This means that when a reader reads any literary text it is the belief that it allows the individual to construct his/her own meaning. Once the reader
is able to interact with the text, he/she is able to explore and interpret it in a way in which his or her cultural backgrounds is understood and that of
others. Within a literary text, the reader is able to understand why specific cultures do certain practices and how it places value on society.
Furthermore, it is through a text that individuals gain insight on what is morally acceptable to society and can be able to link it through their
experiences whether in their school environment and the community. This insight may be gain not just by reading one book but through various
literary text in which they are able to apply their critically thinking skills and construct their own understanding whether it may be through poem or
story. However, not all similar books will be written the same way, for example, Cinderella. There are many Cinderella books written with countless
interpretation; however, readers can be able to read all and find similarities such as it is wrong to treat people cruel or that the stepmother is cruel.
Despite that, a reader may have a stepmother who is a wonderful person yet he or she can analyze and understand that not all stepmothers are cruel or
not everyone will treat a person wrongfully. In essence, the readers are able to become critical thinkers through the assimilation of a literary

вЂ The meaning of text is as moral as its readerвЂ™
'The meaning of text is as moral as its reader'
The meaning of the text is often only as moral as its reader.If the reader is intolerant ,hateful,or oppressive,so will be the interpretation of the text.The
main goal of the reader is to understand what is described in the text.This understanding is on the basis of factors such as biological,cognitive or
behavioural issues. Individual readers may either accept, modify,ignore or reject text or any reading material, according to their experience , attitudes
and purposes.Ultimately ,the Quran speaks through its reader.Its interpretation depends on its reader.If one take it as a Holy book then he will never
judge it as wrong book or any of its text as wrong....show more content...
If then husband is allowed to beat his wife, love and compassion have no meaning left between the two whatsoever.So there is always a hidden reality
behind each and every verse of the Quran.They are always meant for different cases and different occasions.If women are allow to beaten then there
would be reason behind it ,otherwise Islam and Quran always emphasize on agenda of equal rights for both genders.This was the reason that Quranic
language never has the word like husband or wife ,it always emphasize to treat zawj(spouse) absolutely equally.If we take another example from Quran
regarding the enemies we find that there were different occasions where Allah has forgiven Prophets enemies and there were occasions where Allah
killed there enemies.If some one will read Quran then how will he interpret its knowledge?It can be so that one reader may get the concept of
forgiving and other may get the concept of killing.So this shows that it is just to dependent on the reader that how he interpret the knowledge.So it is
upto the understanding of reader that how he interpret the knowledge given in Quran , if he will take it in optimistic way then he will be more careful
while judging the concept of Quran.While on the other hand ,if same knowledge is observe by the non muslin then one could expect him

The Importance Of Critical Reading
According to (Critical literacy practices, 2011) "critical reading" is a type of literacy practice that is learning practice in which students analyze and
critique language and power relationships within written texts. Many college freshmen are not prepared for critical reading, yet a lot of higher
education organizations and levels do not require individual critical reading courses. Even though critical reading is an often–cited neutral topic in
some different colleges structured reading courses. In many different colleges, at times, there is little to no research that exists that may also describe
how composition instructors teach critical reading strategies. No matter the subject or the age of the reader. An overall reading goal for critical readers
includes reading an article to comprehend information based on what was stated within the text. While readers read to gain understanding from the
text, the readers also use additional information at times such as factual ideas, prior knowledge, and also context clues to understand the difficult text.
There are many ways to become a "critical reader" which includes different types of reading strategies.
There are a few different reading strategies that can help a person become a critical reader. A reading strategy that could lead upcoming undergraduate
students to become critical readers is a strategy that is called "Crap Analysis". There are more strategies used to become a critical reader that includes
increasing

Books vs Ebooks Essay
Now days with the rise of digital technology many physical items such as pen and paper are slowly being replaced by computers and smart phones.
But is this really a good thing? I read books and of course so do many other people in this class and around the globe. But since the creation of
'e–readers' more and more people have been converting to the technology based side of reading. Although technology is slowly becoming more
predominant in this era we should not rely on it to always entertain and keep us occupied.
I think 'real, physical' books are better than e–books because you can truly own a book. As Mortimer J. Adler, a popular author, says, 'Full ownership
comes only when you have made [the book] a part of yourself, and the best...show more content...
Of course that's not strictly true–you can loan your book by loaning your reading device, but that's like giving someone access to one of your books by
loaning them an entire library, book cases and all.
And books are a tactile experience, meaning they are supposed to be experienced through touch and smell (especially for the old books). A book is
meant to be an experience that can have depressions and elevations on the cover and text, feeling the weight of the pages as you turn them and all of
these elements when combined make a book what it is, but when you read an e–book you are exposed to digitized text and a screen. And it's been
proven that when people are exposed to screens of TVs or computers they are less likely to have a good night sleep. On a web poll about e–books vs.
books one person commented, 'I've tried reading a few e–books but I've always given up. I just don't like looking at digitized text when I'm reading a
novel. I like the feel, the weight and even the smell of books,' many of the following comments made by others agreed with this persons thoughts.
A book is a single–task item that is written to distract the reader from everything else happening around them, they are technology designed for the best
possible reading experience. An e–reader, however, tends to be a multi–tasking item with the ability to play music and videos as well as hold books.
The iPad has a reading function but the focus is

The Bedford Reader Analysis
In the book The Bedford Reader, published by Bedford/St. Martin's, the authors lay out the importance of "Academic Writing". To begin with, a clear
thesis must be stated. The audience will be best engaged if the thesis has a hook. Second, the writer must provide evidence in order to back up the
thesis. When evaluating multiple texts, both primary and secondary sources are useful. Next, it's very import for the writer to synthesis the draft in their
own words, this will prevent plagiarism. Finally, a great essay must always have a works cited page in MLA format. A simple recommendation is to
keep notes of all works cited during the rough draft.
In the book A Writers Reference, authors Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers, experts in English

In the topic of reading, I see myself as someone who has the ability and potential to become a great reader but, has trouble settling on a book that I
find enjoyable. Recently I do feel that I have been improving but, in the past, my history with reading was not the greatest. Unfortunately, I still cannot
say reading is a hobby of mine but, I hope that in the upcoming years that will change. In my younger years, my experience with reading was that the
teacher would assign the class a specific book and I would force myself to read. I feel like this is a big factor in the way I saw reading getting up to
this stage, as back then I found reading as homework which was like a punishment. I want to be able to move away from that mentality and start
reading for the enjoyment. In the past couple years, I started recognizing different types of books that fit my interests and what gets me hooked. I love
books that are deep and meaningful, books that will keep one thinking and are unpredictable. I have noticed that most books that I tend to love are non
– fiction because, in my opinion, these types of books hold the most interesting stories and have the most meaning. Lately, I have been trying to
strengthen my patience in getting over books to quickly, I feel like improving this will also help me find more interests in different types/genres of
books. I feel that my biggest weakness is comprehension. I struggle when it comes to finding the meaning of a book or a poem when they are not

What would one expect from an ordinary blind man? What can he possibly do to completely alter the way of looking at life? In "Cathedral" by
Raymond Carver, readers observe how Robert, a blind guy, alters the narrator's world view and the respective marked alterations that take place in
narrator's life. The writer of this article explains about this shift of point of view and the enormous change that takes place in the narrator's life, when
he changes from a person who only looks to a man who sees. The explanation is given through the lenses of reader response criticism using subjective
reader–response theory represented by David Bleich. Key Words: Cathedral, Carver, Reader Response, Seeing and Looking Introduction: Raymond
Carver was an American writer who was famous for his minimalist style of writing. Even though according to Ann Beattie in an interview in The Paris
Review he resented the title, Carver is mostly known for his minimal short stories. Among his many stories the writer of this article chose Cathedral to
discuss. Since the story is filled with numerous gaps it is the perfect story to be analyzed with subjective reader–response theory introduced by David
Bleich and his idea of symbolic objects which is the experience that a reader goes through while reading the story. According to Bleich...show more
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He is bothered that Robert, the blind guy, is not wearing glasses or that he doesn't have a white cane. "I'd always thought dark glasses were a must
for the blind. Fact was, I wish he had a pair." (Carver 520). Robert is a bearded guy and the narrator thinks that even having a beard for a guy like
him is completely unnecessary because of all the trouble that he might go through taking care of his beard. He thinks that Robert doesn't have the right
to be bearded because it is against the norms that the narrator has seen or read about his entire

Strategic Reader Summary
This article discussed Strategic Reader, a technology–based system blending universal design for learning and curriculum based measurement in a
digital learning environment to improve reading comprehension instruction. The experimental study evaluated the effectiveness of Strategic Reader
using two treatment conditions – online and offline – for measuring progress. Using both quantitative and qualitative data analysis, strong evidence is
found that students using the online tool experience significant growth in comprehension scores. The difference in score growth in the online versus
offline conditions is especially large for students with learning disabilities. Only in the online progress monitoring condition do learning disabled
students...show more content...
Three research questions were identified in the study. A mixed–method study design, of quantitative and qualitative methodology, was used to analyze
whether universal design for learning or curriculum based measurement embedded directly into an instructional digital environment supported better
reading outcomes for all students, particularly those with disabilities, and determine whether providing support for teacher instructional decision
making and differentiated instruction for individual students leads to appropriately supported reading. The study design included two treatment
conditions. Four middle schools from four different districts outside a large metropolitan area in the Northeast were included. This would represent a
good sampling of students. Guidelines were established to protect the students. Parents had to sign giving their children permission to participate in the
study. Several assessments with a focus on reading ability were administered before, during, and following use of the Strategic Reader to gauge growth
over the 11– to 12–week intervention. Pre– and post–tests using the Gates–MacGinitie standardized reading measure. This is a common, reputable
assessment known to many people. Randomization was used in this study by teacher. There were some limitations of this study. One was that there was
an uneven distribution of participants across

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