English 102 - Fall 2008

The author, Alice-Ann Darrow, asserts her argument that music helps students to learn and is a useful tool in reading by citing various research studies dealing with the effects of music on literacy, specifically reading. Darrow states that although the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 dictates that every child should know how to read, 30% of American youths are struggling to read. Music, she argues, is a significant tool to help speed up and help the process of learning to read.

The piece by Bronwyn Williams talks about how teachers do not look at the ways reading and writing are presented in culture, but if they do, it is uncommon. He takes into account how popular movies and television programs have people reading in writing. In addition, Williams explains that these popular cultures will influence today's adolescents.

'Mozart Effect' Revisted talks about the history of the Mozart Effect, which is a study method for students to use when withholding information. In this text, it''s combining the Mozart Effect with children. For example, Ten years ago Chinese University neuropsychologist Agnes Chan reported that adults who had been taking music lessons for more than 6 years had better memory for words.

This report discusses the affects low health literacy has on a person's health status and why health literacy is important to overall health. Low health literacy affects a person's health status more than any other factor, including education, income, and employment or race. Because people with limited health literacy don't tend to seek preventative care and are less likely to follow prescribed treatments, health is compromised and the possibility of a hospital stay is more likely. The report aptly describes the reasons why health literacy is important.

This article has a good view on how to deal with our non-literate children. It gives ways to help children with disabilities to become better readers and writers.

In this article, the relationship between literacy practices and spatiality is explored in the context of family literacy. The article draws on fieldwork in family literacy classrooms as part of two evaluations in Croydon and Derbyshire of family learning provision. Methods of evaluation included classroom observations in rural and suburban locations. In addition, teachers and parents were interviewed. In this instance, family learning included literacy and language activities with parents and children in school and nursery settings. These were learning spaces where parents and children collaborated on joint projects including book making, storytelling, the making of visual artefacts and reading and writing activities. The research revealed how family literacy classrooms could be understood as 'third spaces', between home and school, offering parents and children discursive opportunities drawing on both domains.

This article disscuses on problems faced with literacy in athletic training. It touches on the fact that in order to engage in athletic activities, they must be able by athletic training educators to ingage knowledge and skills, as well as information literacy.

this article studies the affects of using the internet as a reasearch tool. It contains a lot of statistics and is very technical.

This article is about the increasing inclination of society to choose not to read even though they have the ability. The study is as recent as 2006 and offers insight on a disturbing trend.

This article explores the differences in literacy experiences between males and females. Students in particular. It is relatively easy to read, and is about 10 pages long. It seems to be geared towards teachers, but we as students, researching literacy, can gain a lot as well.

This article focuses on adult literacy throughout the world.With nearly 8 billion illiterate adults around the world programs like International Literacy Day try to focus on getting adults to learn how to read and write to help promote global unity. The article talks about Britian and its need to promote literacy and learning throughout its own country, and around the world.

The article discusses the importance of instituting NCAA academic reforms and maintaining the balance between academics and athletics. It offers an overview of the new ncaa academic standards and its solution to bridging the gap between athletics and academics. The author also points out the significant role coaches and academic/athletic advisors play in a student's athletic and academic career.

This article explains the heavy use of alcohol in most of the universities in the United States. It portrays the effects of alcohol abuse on several aspects, including academic performance. It also presents ways to decrease binge drinking at universities. The latter do not simply rely on alcohol education but goes far beyond that. This research presents excellent ideas to stop the consumption of alcohol among underage college students.

This article studies the effect of different factors on the academic performance of freshmen college students. It presents different studies performed on these students. The studies' results reflect the extent to which each factor affects students' GPAs. However, It shows that drinking is not a significant predictor of achievement. This research clearly provides shocking results, probably because it is limited to a small population of freshmen students enrolled at a private university.

This article provides a description of many reasons that render college students alcoholic people. It also discusses the effects of binge drinking on students, one of which is poor academic performance. Then, it presents several methods that could be followed to control alcohol abuse on campus. This article effectively portrays the importance of controlling the consumption of alcohol on campus. However, It does not thoroughly discuss the relationship between alcohol abuse and academic performance, although it includes this idea in the title.

This article demonstrates the validation of the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire. It presents a study performed on college students. The latter participate in three sessions and take different tests from which data is collected. This study verifies the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire. It also demonstrates the direct relationship between heavy drinking and poor academic performance. Although the paper presents very important information, however, it does not provide enough background information.

This essay focuses on how video games both highlight our traditional assumptions about reading and writing and suggest alternative paradigms that combine the new and the traditional:Play. Video games reveal how pleasure and desire are inherent to the reading and writing process. This dimension of gaming helps explain why video games can produce resistance in terms of approaches to writing instruction grounded in maintaining the cultural distinction between play and work.Authority. The interactivity of video games complicates questions of who authors and authorizes meaning in a discourse community. Video game players are simultaneously readers and writers whose gaming decisions are inscribed within a certain horizon of possibilities but not predictability. The video game is an inherently dialogic discursive space that problematizes the institutionalized distinction between "reading" and "writing"Return to the visual. The case of video games not only helps restore the understanding of writing as a visual form of communication but also challenges the apparent static quality of the printed text, emphasizing the temporal quality of all communication. In so doing, the study of video games promises to fundamentally rewrite the conceptual binary of process and product in composition pedagogy.

The article explores how literacy reforms alter the issues of identity, and cites the influence of technology on student's literacy skills. The author said that the emergence of MySpace site, Facebook, and cellphone cameras have changed the way young people communicate and write, and informed a statement from a young adolescent girl which validates the literacy changes. He also stressed several intriguing developments which allow students to manipulate and play with their identities, and informs that students spend much more time reading and writing online.

This article tells about a man that feels like the Bible is read and interpreted to generally in the recent years. He feels that the people in the ancient history took the bible as very literally and now it is read as something that will benifit us in modern times.

This is an article about the teaching of the Bible in schools today and how it is difficult. This article also describes how it can be unlawful as well as difficult to teach this in the first place.