This week some of the things I learned are how to find my reading rate, speed doesn't matter, and the process of doing something is important. Reading rates are very helpful in the way of being able to estimate how long it will take you to read a book and you can also estimate how many books you can read in a given time period. You can calculate your own reading rate by reading a book for ten minutes and at the end of that ten minutes, you count how many pages you read. So, on average you would read that many pages in ten minutes. Then, you multiply that number by 12 and that is how many pages you could read in two hours. This helps me determine how many pages I could read in a week and it helps me see how long it will take me to read a certain book. When you start out reading a new book, start the process over again and find your new reading rate. Another thing I learned this week is speed does not matter. It seems like it would be something that I already knew and I did already know it, but hearing it again really helped me read books differently and become more focused. Before I was reminded of this, I would read books fast and as quick as possible just to be done with them. Now, I slow down my reading and pay more attention to detail which helps me get more out of the book and understand it better. The third thing I learned this week was the process of doing things is important. If you had to write a 5 page paper and you weren't given a topic, you wouldn't just start writing and hope something came to you. Before you even opened up a word document or picked up a pencil, it would help if you went through a process of figuring out what you were going to write and how you were going to structure your paper. All 3 of these things that I learned this week really helped me look at reading and writing in a different way and they will definitely help me out at the next level.
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Ben
9/11/2017 11:59:42 am
Hey Tyler,
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