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5.1 Are You Ready for the Big Leagues? - Coggle Diagram
5.1 Are You Ready for the Big Leagues?
Learning Objectives
Explain how reading in college is different from reading in high school.
Understand the importance of reading for college learning.
For each hour you spend in the classroom, you will be expected to spend two or more additional hours studying between classes, and most of that will be reading.
Assignments will be longer (a couple of chapters is common, compared with perhaps only a few pages in high school) and much more difficult.
College textbook authors write using many technical terms and include complex ideas.
Many college authors include research, and some textbooks are written in a style you may find very dry.
You will also have to read from a variety of sources:
your textbook,
ancillary materials,
primary sources
academic journals
periodicals
online postings.
Your assignments in literature courses will be complete books, possibly with convoluted plots and unusual wording or dialects, and they may have so many characters you’ll feel like you need a scorecard to keep them straight.
In college, most instructors do not spend much time reviewing the reading assignment in class. Rather, they expect that you have done the assignment before coming to class and understand the material.
The class lecture or discussion is often based on that expectation. Tests, too, are based on that expectation.
This is why active reading is so important—it’s up to you to do the reading and comprehend what you read.
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It may not always be clear on an instructor’s syllabus, but a reading assignment listed on any given class date should be read before coming to class on that date.
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Key Takeaways
College reading is very different from high school reading.
You must take personal responsibility for understanding what you read.
Expect to spend about two or more hours on homework, most of it reading, for every hour you spend in class.
Reading is a primary means for absorbing ideas in the learning cycle, but it is also very important for the other three aspects of the learning cycle.