Response to Cecchini & Perez
In their article "Motivation in Literacy Development" they discuss the factors that drive people to read. They interview 8 first year honor's students at The University of Central Florida by interviewing these students they were able to better understand there successes in literacy. By doing these interviews they were better able to understand what drove them to become literate family, friends, teachers, & how technology played a role in their literacies. They say that motivation plays a huge role in students literacy levels because if you are motivated to learn than you will but if you are not that you will simple fail.
Do author's put their own histories into the papers?
I did not find any evidence of the authors histories in this article. They just used the information they revived from the student interviews as facts within their article. I think the author's should have added some of their own histories within this article because it would have made the article more creditable.
Do you refer to yourself in 1st or 3rd person?
In this article I would refer to myself in 1st person because it sounds better since you are talking about your self. If you were to talk in 3rd because it would sound interesting but I don't know if that would be a good thing or a bad thing.
Reflection to Cecchini & Perez
I enjoyed reading this article and I thought it was written very well and was interesting to read. Once I read this article I remembered it brought back memories of book it in elementary school were we read 5 books and than got a free pizza at Pizza Hut.
I agree with what you said about how the authors should have used their own histories because it would have made the paper a lot stronger.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with your thoughts about writing in first person as appose to third person. I think you made a good point saying that it would make it more personal.
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