MOOC USSV101x | Hard Reading, Good Writing | Introduction - Hard Reading
Summary
TLDRThe video script emphasizes the importance of reading, thinking, and writing in college, particularly for humanities and social sciences. It acknowledges the challenge of comprehending complex texts and assures students that difficulty is common. The script encourages learning and practicing strategies to improve academic skills, highlighting that everyone can overcome these challenges with the right approach.
Takeaways
- 📚 Reading, thinking, and writing are fundamental activities in college classes, especially in the humanities and social sciences.
- 🧠 These skills are not innate; they are learned and improved through practice and the use of effective strategies.
- 📚 College reading often involves scholarly articles and texts that require a different approach than casual reading.
- 📘 Academic writing is a skill that can be developed, and it's distinct from everyday writing.
- 🤔 Encountering difficult texts is a common experience for college students, and it's not a sign of personal inadequacy.
- 📚 The ability to understand complex texts is a skill that can be learned and is essential for academic success.
- 🔍 When faced with a hard reading assignment, it's important to approach it with the right mindset and strategies.
- 🤓 Everyone encounters challenging texts, and it's a shared experience among students, which can be reassuring.
- 🛠 Developing skills to interact with difficult texts is crucial, as it prepares students for academic challenges.
- 📈 Incremental improvement is the goal when learning to read and write at a college level, emphasizing the importance of continuous practice.
- 🔑 Strategies for dealing with hard reading are widely applicable and can assist students with a variety of challenging texts.
Q & A
What are the fundamental activities in many college classes according to the script?
-The fundamental activities in many college classes are reading a text, thinking about the text, and then writing about it.
Why is the cycle of reading, thinking, and writing important in the humanities and social sciences?
-The cycle of reading, thinking, and writing is important in the humanities and social sciences because it forms the basis of understanding and analyzing scholarly material in these fields.
What does the script suggest about the nature of reading, thinking, and writing in a college setting?
-The script suggests that reading, thinking, and writing in a college setting are learned skills that require practice and are not innate abilities.
What is the script's perspective on encountering a hard reading assignment in college?
-The script indicates that encountering a hard reading assignment in college is very likely and is a common experience for students.
How does the script reassure students who struggle with understanding difficult texts?
-The script reassures students by stating that struggling with difficult texts is a common experience and not an indication of their inability to perform academically.
What does the script suggest students should do when faced with a difficult text?
-The script suggests that students should learn specific skills to prepare for and interact with difficult texts.
What strategies does the script offer to help with hard reading assignments?
-The script offers strategies that can help almost anyone with almost any kind of hard reading, although it does not specify the strategies in the provided transcript.
Why is it important to practice reading, thinking, and writing skills according to the script?
-It is important to practice these skills to achieve incremental improvement and to be better prepared for academic tasks in college.
What is the script's view on the inevitability of encountering a challenging text in college?
-The script views it as a virtual certainty that students will encounter a challenging text in college.
What is the script's advice for students who feel they cannot understand a text despite reading it multiple times?
-The script advises students not to worry about being incapable but to learn skills that will help them when they need to interact with a difficult text.
How does the script describe the process of learning to read scholarly articles or write academic essays?
-The script describes the process as one that involves employing good strategies and practicing with the goal of incremental improvement.
Outlines
📚 Fundamental Academic Skills
This paragraph introduces the core activities of reading, thinking, and writing as essential to college education, especially in the humanities and social sciences. It acknowledges that while these skills are familiar, mastering them for academic purposes requires practice. The script emphasizes that everyone can improve these skills through strategy and practice, and reassures students that struggling with difficult texts is a common experience. It suggests that learning specific strategies will prepare students to tackle challenging reading assignments effectively.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡College Student
💡Reading
💡Writing
💡Text
💡Scholarly Article
💡Academic Essay
💡Strategies
💡Incremental Improvement
💡Hard Reading Assignment
💡Philosophy
💡Poem
Highlights
Reading, thinking, and writing are fundamental activities in college humanities and social sciences courses.
Performing these tasks in a college classroom requires learned skills and practice.
No one is born knowing how to read scholarly articles or write academic essays.
Everyone can learn to do these things by employing good strategies and practicing for incremental improvement.
College students will likely encounter a hard reading assignment that they initially don't understand.
The difficulty in understanding a text, even in English, is a common experience among college students.
Students should not worry about being incapable, but instead learn skills to interact with difficult texts.
The transcript offers strategies to help students with almost any kind of hard reading.
The cycle of reading, thinking, and writing is essential for success in college.
Students are encouraged to view difficult texts as a learning opportunity rather than a problem.
The transcript emphasizes the importance of developing skills to tackle challenging texts in college.
Students are reassured that struggling with a text is a shared experience, not an individual shortcoming.
The transcript provides a supportive approach to dealing with hard reading assignments in college.
Learning to read and write academically is a process that requires patience and practice.
The transcript suggests that good strategies can make a significant difference in handling complex texts.
Students are urged to approach academic tasks with the goal of continuous improvement.
The transcript highlights the universality of the challenges faced when reading in college.
Students are reminded that the ability to read and write academically is a skill that can be developed.
The transcript aims to equip students with the necessary tools to succeed in their academic reading and writing.
Transcripts
- Welcome.
Just about every college student
will need to read and write.
The basic activities in many college classes boil down
to reading a text, thinking about the text,
and then writing about it.
Of course it becomes much more nuanced than that,
but the cycle of reading, thinking, and writing
is fundamental to any course in the humanities
and social sciences.
Although we're all used to reading, thinking, and writing,
performing these tasks the way they're meant to be done
in a college classroom takes practice.
These are learned skills, nobody's born knowing how to read
a scholarly article or how to write an academic essay,
but everyone can learn how to do these things
by employing good strategies and by practicing
with the specific goal of incremental improvement.
At some point in college, it's very likely that you'll
encounter a hard reading assignment,
a text that you just don't understand.
Could be a book of ancient philosophy,
a new scholarly article, a poem, almost anything.
The text is written in English and you speak English,
but you still don't get it, even if you read it
over and over again.
The bad news is that this is likely,
very likely, in fact, it's a virtual certainty.
The good news is that it happens to everyone,
which means you don't need to worry that you're the problem,
you don't need to worry that you're just incapable
of doing this.
Instead, you simply need to learn some skills
that will prepare you for the moment
when you need to interact with a difficult text.
Since this problem is so common, we wanna offer some
strategies that can help almost anyone
with almost any kind of hard reading.
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