The Speed Reading Course By Peter Shepherd & Gregory Unsworth-Mitchell Email: shepherd@trans4mind.com Web site: Tools for Transformation Copyright © 1997 Peter Shepherd The Basics of Reading Introduction We all learn to read at school‚ after a fashion. But for most of us‚ this is not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn to better use the left brain’s focused attention combined with the right brain’s peripheral attention‚ in close harmony. Good communication
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So far Love’s belief—that hermeneutical close readings‚ due to their implied humanism‚ may produce a depth that is neither inherent‚ nor necessary to a text—has been expounded‚ along with her affinity for sociological practices of close observation and description. To this‚ I would like to add her own account‚ from a talk given at the University of Pennsylvania‚ of the way Goffman’s work has informed her own. She says: […] in his work on social interaction and communication‚ Goffman focused consistently
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after she started reading. For many years‚ she concentrated on writing about cowboys and horses. She even completed two books about her favorite passion. But the troubling clashes between greasers and Socs that Hinton witnessed during her teen years eventually forced its way into her writing. Though she was neither a greaser nor Soc herself‚ she personally knew teens from both groups. It was the beating of one of her greaser friends that inspired The Outsiders. The Outsiders was Hinton’s attempt
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Kensit‚ an actress‚ once said “Once a child is confronted with the concept of death‚ there’s a certain innocence that goes.” Kensit means once oneself has familiarized themselves with death‚ part of one’s innocence is taken away. In the novel‚ The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade‚ lose innocence by experiencing death. Hinton proves that losing innocence mentally at a young age has terrible effect through both Ponyboy and Johnny. Ponyboy’s experiences in life shows the devastating
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What is reading comprehension and how is it applied to daily living? Reading is define as understanding written word. Comprehension is defined as the level of understanding through reading and understanding what is been said. The understanding comes from the interaction between the words that are been written and how they trigger the sensors in the brain. Sometime children have different ways of learning how to read and how to comprehend. Whenever this happen some children are looked at as having
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Ricky Grayson English Chadwick and Kelly 6/31/10 Journal Entry 1: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close pgs 1-75 Summary: In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close‚ Jonathan Safran Foer writes of a nine year old boy‚ Oskar Schell‚ who is both inquisitive and humorous. You see‚ Oskar lost his father in the 9/11 terror attacks and cannot adjust to his new life. Oskar is both surprised and hurt that his mother‚ who he thinks should be grieving over his father’s death‚ is‚ in fact
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The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a book about the troubles that teenagers face and how they are able to overcome them. The development of the characters throughout the book is evident and how they act make the book an interesting read. What they go through and how the book ends gives the book a sense of realism and is able to teach essential life lessons. If I were to walk by a book store and see this book on the stand I would pick it up. In my opinion the book cover is good because it is able to
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Any good writer knows about the impact that reading can have on his/her work‚ as well as that in order to be able to fully understand and digest a piece of literature‚ one should follow the basic guidelines of active reading‚ the type of reading where a reader subjects a writing to a critical analyze by using different types of reading techniques (Stubbs‚ Barnet‚ and Cain‚ 2). However‚ every reader‚ just like every writer‚ has his/her own style of reading that is composed of or is guided by a combination
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L 4 Teaching Reading What do listening and reading comprehension skills have in common? both are receptive skills they provide INPUT for LLs (LLs need to be exposed to the language they learn as much as possible) LLs - listen and read both extensively and intensively Input hypothesis (Krashen) – LLs are able to acquire language that is slightly above their level (i+1) goals of listening and reading – similar it is necessary to focus on the process‚ not on the product three stages: pre-‚ during-
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The Importance of Reading September 1st 2012 People are living in a world where new technological advances have replaced the desire to read. Reading‚ in my opinion‚ has become less important to many adults and children. Some children and teenagers prefer to watch a movie or playing video games instead of reading a book. Some adults prefer to watch television than to read a good novel. Reading‚ in some people’s agenda‚ is not as important as it used to be like in the early 1900’s. To some people
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