Reading across the Disciplines

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Reading across the Disciplines

• May College 2008
• Sarah Gates
• Pamela Thacher
• Christopher Watts

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Literacy, writ broad

• Foundational Literacy
• Phonetics
• Emotional / prosodic / inflected reading
• Reading for meaning
• Critical Literacy
• Synthesizing
• Integrating
• Critiquing
• Alice S. Horning, Oakland University retrieved
  May 2008
• Reading Across the Curriculum, in press.

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The cycle of reeling and writhing
Reading to Learn
Learning to Read
Reading to Write, Create
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Critical Literacy demands deeper reading skills

• R
• Relationships among embedded ideas
• Richness of ideas and sophistication of material
  or data
• S
• Structure of the piece
• Style, subtleties of tone, use of language
• V
• Vocabulary, Jargon Efficient and expert use of
  fewest words to convey greatest meaning
• P
• Purpose Ambiguous or obvious intent awareness
  of audience
  (Horning, in press)

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Lessons from the Trenches

• Sarah Classic texts, classical understanding of
  reading
• or, No, dont use Dictionary.com to explicate
  this text!
• Pamela Data, graphs, figures, statistics
• or, Its not Moby Dick you can read the ending
  first!
• Chris Reading hearing and listening
• or, If youre texting someone, youre not
  listening!

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How We Do It

• Successful Attempts
• Crashing Failures
• Other Peoples Attempts

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Quiz!

• Journal article Quiz Name __________
• Abnormal Psychology April 8, 2008
• 1. Who are the authors of this study? (1 pt)
• 2. What was the year it was published? (1/2 pt)
• 3. In what journal was it published? (1/2 pt)

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• What was the goal (or one important goal) of the
  study?
• What is a proband?
• What does post-traumatic stress disorder have to
  do with this article or these findings?
• Name one other article (identify it as clearly
  as possible) that you have read this semester to
  which these findings seem relevant. Briefly tell
  how that article seems relevant to you.

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• Tell me something about the authors. For
  example, where are they from, what is their
  specialty (or specialties), or what other work
  have they done?
• Tell me something about the results that
  interested you. (up to 2 pts)

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Abnormal PsychologyQuiz Grades -- Individuals
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Abnormal PsychologyQuiz Averages and Standard
Deviations for 28 students)
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Integrative Paper

• Think piece
• Thought piece
• Paper
• The uh the the paper were doing
• Peer review Professor and Classroom Peer
• Show them my reviews, my responses to reviews,
  and letters from editors
• Response to reviews Final draft of paper