“Develop habits for engaged reading”
In the past two weeks, I focused on the reading aspect of the course objectives.
In the past two weeks in this course, I have understood and reflected on the term social construction. This term will be the key to connecting the various materials when writing this semester.
After that, I watched Jean Kilbourne's speech Killing Us Softly 4 and reflected on it. After understanding the meaning of social construction, I can understand what this speech wants to express. Before this, there have been discussions on the topic of designing female characters to be too beautiful. At the time, I couldn't understand why it would be wrong to make the character good-looking. And these two speeches made me realize that the real problem lies in making the characters good-looking and not just about the ability of art, it also affects the society's definition of beauty. I found it difficult to find the main point while watching the speech. Because speeches do not have obvious paragraph divisions and subtitles like articles. So I tried to divide by the themes she talked about, and then combined similar themes to summarize.
Then we created our own blog. This is the first time I have come into contact with this kind of thing so I feel very strenuous. If someone finds an error on the page while reading my blog, please let me know. We use the blog as a weekly review. Reflect on what you have learned this week. The reflection on myself in the first week of the blog helped me understand the course outline better. At the beginning, I was puzzled about the development of reading habits in the syllabus. Because we made a lot of reading contacts during academic writing. When reading, it is usually to read through the full text, list the outline of the article, and then summarize. It wasn't until I did Close Reading Practice: Looking into the Magic Mirror, Haas and Trapdeo that I learned that the real reading skills are not just summarizing the full text.
Reading is what really requires a lot of thinking and a clear grasp of the key points. Compared with speeches, although the article can quickly distinguish several major points, it is difficult to find the small points. For example, I can quickly find the changes in the two periods of Disney in Looking into the Magic Mirror, but the key points of what Frozen brings need to be considered in reading. And when the speech is combined with the pictures, I can quickly understand the meaning she wants to express when the focus changes. After that, we integrated the resources of the two articles and added our own opinions. I think this is to provide basic ideas and resources for future writing.
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