520 R Journal #1

Review the first week in reading class
Write about the work you have done so far in the 520 R course. What are your impression of the class? Of your role in the class? What are your impressions of the textbook? What have you learned?

During the last week I am staying at Academic Reading class enjoying this precious moment with my classmates, with my friends and my teacher Eilidh who seems like a six year old child. In these seven days we had fun and we had knowledge. We all laughed and chatted like a big family under this releasing atmosphere, which can easily activate our mind to different angles. We learned the process of fast read, how to summarize and paraphrase, and the way to improve your reading habit. But the thing most interesting part I like in this lesson is the preview written before every class. I never saw it before. But it is good not only because we can comprehend the whole structure of the class but also we can easily take the notice and follow the step of teacher wherever she goes.

As for our roles in class, I expect we should be participants rather than the receivers. Because only attending in every discussion or question&answer, it is possible to accelerate your memory to understand reading skills and wilder yourself or even others' mind which is good for experience with separately aspects.

When we talk about our textbook, there is hardly having complain. I assume the reason suppose that lots of mutual activation and cooperation what the book announces for, which is funny to share your ideas with partner. However, in my opinion, I suggest that the book should emphasize a little bit more about the author's idea rather than out own opinion, which,comparatively, is not that important to absorb knowledge when we are having academic reading. Moreover, from the first chapter, I really appreciate the author's opinion about the highlight and surveying for helping us easier to catch up the main point and overview the whole paragraph as soon as possible.

In this one week study, there are two things I learned with deep impression. The first one is how to deal with fast read. After two exercises and time limit accounting., I know how to preview one article in fifteen seconds and how to speed up my reading rate by reading the chunk , highlight the main idea and ever activating schemata to guess the author's meaning before reading. On the other hand, which is far more interesting, that we can use our blogs to communicate and share our essays. As for my hope, this great idea expressed by this attractive long-distance education will show a giant effect as soon as we start to prepare our essay carefully and provide each other suggestible advice.

Thus, I am surely and fully expecting our class will enjoy more success and more happiness in the next couple of week.