Just a reminder about the evolving essay wiki/blog - the URL below gives
one student's approach to active reading:
http://anessayevolves.blogspot.com/2007/02/active-reading.html
Best,
Sandra
Rob Abbott wrote:
> I am at the very early stages of a PhD which takes an Academic
> Literacies approach to the issue of student academic reading. I have
> just started some pilot studies with students in two subject areas.
> Although I am only talking to a very small number of students (three
> from each subject area), my experience of students and their reading is
> different to the other views that have been expressed so far on this topic.
>
> One of the groups of students is taking a module on Postmodernism and
> are being asked to read some very difficult material, Frederic Jameson,
> Baudrillard, Judith Butler, to name but three. What has impressed me so
> far in the research has been the diligence and the tenacity of the
> students in struggling through this pretty tough reading. What is also
> interesting is both the different ways in which students engage with
> this reading and the different senses they seem to be making of it. How
> they struggle, for example, to relate this new and very unfamiliar
> reading to concepts and ideas which are more familiar. I'm also
> impressed with the use that students are making of the lectures and
> seminars they are attending, using these to roughly map out the
> territory that is explored in more detail in the reading. I'm very aware
> that my little group of volunteer subjects may not be wholly
> representative of the student body as a whole, but I think we must
> remember that there are a lot of students out there who are engaged in
> their studies and who do undertake the reading they are set.
>
> It's very early days for my own research and my task for the summer will
> be to analyse the interview material that I am gathering at the moment.
> I'll let you know when I have something more definite to report!
>
>
>
> Rob Abbott
>
> University of Chichester
>
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