Questions for Active Reading

Questions for Active Reading pages 271 and 285
Page 271
1.) I think reading the first and last paragraphs in a passage help the reader to understand what the passage will be about typically because in the introduction paragraph it is supposed to be an overall of what is to be expected through out the passage and the conclusion paragraph is supposed to sum up all the points that was made throughout the article.

2.) It is important to know that Lightman is a scientist because it allows the reader to lend more belief to the passage. More importantly what Lightman writes is credible because of the simple fact that he is a scientist. An artist or a social worker are not that likely to write a passage such as the one Lightman wrote because that is not their area of specialty.

3.) In the last paragraph Lightman is more lighthearted. And he is not so much lighthearted when he gives out factual information. I think that the effect of this is to make it interesting because a lot of times science can be a bit dry and boring or hard to understand. When Lightman writes lightheartedly he adds some comedy to it.

Page 285
1.) In paragraph 16 " Transitions are found in the fossil records. Preserved transitions are not common, and shouldn't be. but not because of our understanding of evolution."

2.) In paragraphs 16 and 17 states some interferences.

3.) When Gould used that reference it made it gave an idea as to what he would be talking about.

Questions for Active Reading Ch 6

Questions for Active Reading Page 158
1. I would revise my project one paying close attention to dimension. I think I need to work on that one the most because there was a word count of 700 max and I went over that by about 100 and I did get it down to 702. I tried to get only the important things in without losing depth. The other things that Murray wrote about i think i have a pretty good handle on.

2. I always try to read aloud my work, especially when i am having difficulty with grammar. No matter how many time i do read it aloud it always seems to me that something could be changed.

3. When Murray quotes a few authors and then gives a phrase to go along with the authors it does make me pay more attention to the suggestion about editing papers, it feels like it is a personal suggestion from the author themselves.

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Questions for Active Reading page 243
"How Friendship Was Feminized"
1. Cohen does not believe that men have real friendships, however, Tarvis does believe that men have friendships but that they communicate their friendship without having to say too much about it. Both suggest that men do not necessarily directly speak about important things in life but they do talk about things in life.

2. Choen's definition of friendship is something that women have more than men if they do have friendship at all. Many men do not consider themsleves as friends or really say they have men they moreso say they have people to hang out with.
Tarvis' defnitio of friendship is something that is meaningfull and deep, it is something that grows between two people who communicate with eachother and share experiences, and life together.
My definition of friendship is a couple or group of people who share common interests and enjoy eachother's company, they talk to eachother not necessarily only about personally things but things in general.

3. Tavris not only classifies people as mature if they can verbally expression their feelings but also if they can make moral, or benifically decisions that are not necessairly good for them but good for the important people in their lives. I think that in order to be mature you also have to be resposible, moral, commited, somewhat organized or have an order of some sort, I also think that having something to work toward classifies a person as being mature.

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Questions for Active Reading Page 233
1. In paragraphs 17 and 26-28 Sanders clearly and vividly describe how he puts up the wall to divide the room. I think that at the end of the passage Sanders describes finishing up the wall to precisely because it signifies the end of his work with the wall, the end of the passage and most importantly the end of his father's life.

2. Sanders uses what is called elepises when he goes form describing the past or present and vise versa. When he talks about the past he usually refers to his father teaching him how to use the tools he now owns, and when he talks about the present he is ususally talking about his daughter's gerbils or the wall that he was putting up at the time that he found out about his father's death.

3. A dawn stone is one of the earliest forms of hammers, in which some of the first people used to grind corn, and break bones. He describes it in this essay because throughout time the dawn stone has not changed much and has been basically passed down rom generation to generation just as his grandfather's tools were passed down to his father and then to him.

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Questions For Active Reading Page 108

1. 6 Myths of Creativity?

 1.  Creativity Comes from Creative Types

   Do not restrict creativity from any area of your work. Let creativity flow and

   develop on its own.

 2.  Money is a Creativity Motivator

   Money does not always motivate creativity. The majority of people who are

   creative do not think about how much they are making or are motivated by money.

   Those who do think about money are not so creative. What seems to motivate

   people is if they are paired up with a project that they take an interest to and

   if their skills meet the creativity that is needed for the project. However

   their skills cannot be less than the creativity need because then they would

   become frustrated and if their skills are beyond what is needed then they would

   get bored and creativity will become dry.

 3.  Time Pressure Fuels Creativity

   For some people having a deadline increases their creativity but for most people

   that is not the case. People usually become distracted because they have to come

   up with something creative by a certain time. They then begin to focus on how

   much time they have left instead of their creativity.

 4.  Fear Forces Breakthroughs

   In a study with artists and writers it was found that the more depressed the

   person the greater their creativity level. However in the study with people in

   other job positions people who were happy the day before experienced greater

   creativity the day after.

  5.  Competition Beats Collaboration

   Some people may believe that competing develops more creativity than

   collaborating. However this is not the case creative ideas flourish when people

   collaborate. Because no one person knows everything and when people combine

   ideas it turns out to be an even better idea.

  6.  A Streamlined Organization Is a Creative Organization

    When downsizing a business it prohibits creativity because people once again

   begin to focus on who is going to be cut out and not concentrate on how they can

   be creative. It was found that even after the downsize has been made five months

   later there is still a lack in creativity.



2.  Amabile designed her research by working with a team of PhD graduate students

and managers from different companies. She collected 12,000 journal entries from

about 238 people who were working on creative projects who were not informed

that she was looking closely at creativity. She asked then about their work,

their environment, and inquired about how they felt on that day.  The thing that

was interesting about her work is that she found out things that people would

not necessarily think is the norm.   Such as people who are happier are the ones

who seem to produce more creativity in the work field however those who do

creative work such as artists are more depressed when they produce creative

works.


3.  The audience for Breen is people20who are more likely to be CEOs in a company

which is trying to develop their employees creativity. His audience can also be

people who are trying to enhance their creative ability at their workplace.