Excercise 1.8

1.The most important thing about reading for a research paper is to get a better knowledge of your topic.

2. I think John Yount choose this as the opening to pull his reader's into the book. It was a strong opening and catch's a person's eye. The theme I think it show's a the hardship the character goes through when jumping into the water and how his friends watch him go through so much pain to get away from the snakes that were going to slowly kill him. I think this show's that the book is going to be a central theme to hardship and bad luck.

3. The article is about a person's identity and how it is formed. This article gives you examples on what individuals do and do not do to get their identity. They talk about Erikson theory and then show a new theory to may or may not support his theory.

4. Yes my approach to the two selections were different. I read the first article without a problem and actually want to find this book to read it caught my attention. The second article I had to re-read twice to understand what they were saying. I was more interested in the first article than the second.

I really do not have any reading stragies I just read things that I am interested in.

I do re-read things when I feel confused or need to get a better outlook on the subject. I do highlight when I am looking for alot of information in one area. I think if I was reading for pleasure I would not worry about re-reading or highlighting. If this was an assignmet I would re-read and highlight so I get a better understanding.

I really did not look into these article's more after I read them in our book. So I cant say that I used my own advice on this assignment.

The most important thing about reading for a research paper is to get a better knowledge of the topic.

The key differences between the two was that the first article for pleasure and the second article was to inform a group of people.
I did not run into any problems with the first article. The second article I had to re-read because there was alot of information to take in to get the full meaning of the article.