English 102 - Fall 2008

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This article explains how to use and interpret the bible in your day-to-day life. The article discusses rhetorical dexterity, and how it displays students using this method to sustain faith-based and academic literacies. This article is really easy to read and very helpful.

A survey of sleep habits amongst college students and the way their habits affect driving and academic performance.

A study that shows school schedules interfere with students' biological clocks that inhibit the ability to learn, remember, and focus

A study that shows a circadian rhythm with sleep-wake cycles shows a positive correlation with sleep and learning

This paper investigates gender differences in academic performance among university athletes at an NCAA Division I school. Using regression analysis, the findings suggest that background scholastic achievement variables and race influence university academic performance for student athletes, but sport participation measures and race are negatively related to university academic performance for males only. The consequences of inequalities between men's and women's athletic programs are explored. Implications for academic programs are discussed. (Abstract from author as it appears on EBSCO.)

The author reflects on the use of acronyms, jargon, and terminology in electronic engineering. According to the author, terminology is a very significant issue since a common language is vital for the proper exchange of information, particularly when a new technology is developed. The author believes that many of the terms for the various devices were developed given the fact that the technology involved is old and established. (Description provided by EBSCO.)

An explanation of the current nutrition facts label required by the FDA. Contains facts and statistics about the American diet and use of the labeling system.

The general website for the Bilingual Research Journal, a journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity, this site contains full-text articles focusing on bilingual education, available in PDF format.

Dalton discusses the long history of literacy problems in African Americans. It is believed that the need to become literate mainly started during the emancipation era when it was prohibited in many places for slaves to have the knowledge to read and write. Dalton goes on to speak about how certain African Americans were able to be literate, and went on to write exquisite literature. This article is very interesting and a decently easy read and it helps one out to understand not just the literacy of today, but the literacy in African Americans years ago.

An article that explains a debate that has raged for years in academic circles. When you read online, are you reading or skimming? Is the Internet killing reading or just helping students develop different skills?

Freakonomics is well-worth checking out. Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, authors of Freakonomics, keep the conversation going from their best-selling book that explores the hidden side of everything.

Explains aliteracy and amoralism in literature and reading. Definition of aliterate and amoral; Discussion of several cartoons on aliteracy; View of the International Reading Association on aliteracy. (Description taken from EBSCO.)

This NYT article is about how the way we refer to and treat the elderly (calling them "dear" or speaking loudly to them, for example) can affect their health. Such studies have broader ranging implications. When we call others derogatory names, can it affect their health? Does using "baby talk" affect the language development of children? Do our assumptions about teenagers affect their intellectual development?

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This article gives an example of a third grade girl that is attending a vacation bible school. This article, edited by Megan Greulich, shows examples about how teaching the stories in the Bible can contribute to the understanding of a childs learning ability.

How sleep and and daytime sleepiness affects medical students in Hong Kong's academic performance.

This article involves the teaching of children a specific structure of music and how being able to integrate songs and proper music technique into the classroom is beneficial to literacy

This is a scholarly essay that focuses specifically on the literacy of citizens o Westborough, Mass. during the eighteenth century. It uses draws upon such sources such as probate records, and diaries from actual citizens of the time. However; considering the sources it draws upon, one should consider the time frame in which the source documents are from.