Discussion Board #3

    Daniela woke up from her slumber early in the morning at 8 am, getting ready for her day to start, she starts getting prepared to do her daily tasks of the day. She got up from her bed and started unravel the bedsheets that had been kicked to the floor during her slumber. Once she finished making her bed she makes sure her most important tasks of the day are finished first. She unzips her book bag and starts taking out her books and notes to start doing her assignments. Before she can start she puts on her headphones pressing play on her white noise playlist, keeping any distractions away. The first chapter she starts jotting down her on her notebook, leaning on her hand as she writes, feeling a little tired she gets up for a quick coffee break. Walking back to her desk she goes back to reading and scribbling her notes. She finally finishes reading her three chapters with her handwritten notes that she had carefully made sure looked neat and written in her unique handwriting. 

    Some things how I might improve my reading assignments is definitely having a distraction free space where I can solely focus on my reading without being distracted. Something else I could do as well, is to not make everything so last minute and give myself time to read and be able to understand the content I'm reading. 

    In his essay he talks about being a fast paced person in his everyday life. When he arrived to his grad school, he felt very behind because he had only read five out of the one hundred books that he was supposed to read. He decided at that moment to read all of them by the end of the year, in which case he did, but at what cost? He felt accomplished reading all of them, but he had not remembered the details of each book he had read. He had realized the importance of relishing the time it took to read and saturate all of the content. Take your time, analyze, and understand the books, essays, and paragraphs you are reading to be able to enjoy the reading. 

    To be a slow reader is to take in all the information you are reading and being able to truly understand it. Just because you need to read something by a deadline does not mean you can just rush over it and skim through parts just to get it done. Taking the time to process a reading is of importance to help you better understand the content, retaining it for a long time. 

    She starts noting down whatever she has on her mind giving no mind to punctuation and grammar. As soon as a new idea pops into her head she presses each keyword to note it down. Whenever she draws a blank she starts rereading her work to give her more inspiration. She ponders as she wonders what to write next, all she could do is deliberate anxiously about what else she could write. As each click of the keyboard she presses, there would be a couple seconds of silence for her to reread, and wonder if everything she is noting down even makes sense. As she finished her essay, she lets out a sigh of relief to let herself know she's done what she could in the couple of hours she had.

    I might improve my writing skills by taking the time to write down at a slow pace and making sure I am confident in what I'm writing. I usually rush myself when writing so for me allowing myself to have time would definitely improve my writing. 

    I feel like one of the most important tips he gives out is to write the body paragraph first, the introduction second, and conclusion last. This one is important especially because, I myself, struggle on writing the first few sentences, so I usually take my time writing the body paragraphs to give myself a starting point. I end up finding what I can write in the first few sentences of the start of the paragraph when I use this method. The second one, I most definitely I can relate to and I feel is important, is not being afraid of jumping around and staying stuck in one place of an essay. I felt that whenever I was stuck on a section I skipped it and went to the next, and came back to it if it gave me an idea on what I could write. This allowed me to collect my thoughts and use them for my next sentences that I was not able to finish. These tips will help me going forward to better improve my writing and give myself some more confidence in what I'm writing. Knowing it's okay to not finish a paragraph and come back will improve me finishing my future writings.