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Spring 2009 I am teaching two sections of EWRT 1B.

To Read or Not to Read

The habit of daily reading .... overwhelmingly correlates with better reading skills and higher academic achievement. On the other hand, poor reading skills correlate with lower levels of financial and job success. At the risk of being criticized by social scientists, I suggest that since all the data demonstrate consistent and mostly linear relationships between reading and these positive results—and between poor reading and negative results—reading has played a decisive factor. Whether or not people read, and indeed how much and how often they read, affects their lives in crucial ways.

All of the data suggest how powerfully reading transforms the lives of individuals—whatever their social circumstances. Regular reading not only boosts the likelihood of an individual’s academic and economic success—facts that are not especially surprising—but it also seems to awaken a person’s social and civic sense. Reading correlates with almost every measurement of positive personal and social behavior surveyed.
                                        excerpted from the NEA report To Read or Not to Read
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• use quotes correctly
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• write more effective thesis statements (see also Tips on Thesis Statements )
  
• work on sentence structure (see also Sentence Variety)
  
• learn how to proofread and edit your own writing (see also Proofreading).
  

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