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When I read a selection of writing, the most helpful one for me is annotating. I take notes and my own interpretations about the text, and I write down some questions about the paragraph. The second one I use most often is taking inventory. When I read a text, I prefer to list all the annotations and notes I already took to find the pattern of the text. Meanwhile, I also apply outlining during the reading. I used to outline the main gist of each paragraph, then try to list all the outlines and find what information the writer tries to send. This strategy is very helpful for me when I read some academic papers. Research papers are so long that it is hard for people to grasp the main idea of each paragraph. If I outline the keynote of every paragraph and every section, it will be easier to understand the main idea of every section, and the paper. This is a fast way to understand the writer’s idea and an effective way for me to recall the paper when I need to read it again. What’s more, paraphrasing is another strategy I use to read a paper. When the content is so hard to understand, I prefer to rewrite the sentences with my own words. This is a better way for me to grasp what the writer tries to convey. Also, paraphrasing helps me improve my writing skill.

Some strategies I do not currently use, but they are also helpful to read a selection of writing critically. The first one I should improve is looking for patterns of opposition. Finding the opposition is important in critical writing. When I read a critical paper, I will try to find the idea and the opposite idea of the subject. The second one I will apply is evaluating the logic of argument. Logic plays a vital role in a critical writing because it makes readers reading step by step. I will summarize the logic line of an article and how the writer makes the argument clearly. The third one I will apply in next reading is comparing and contrasting related readings. Some likeness texts will help me to understand it better. I will find some texts which have similar key words, and read them together, which will give me a better understanding of the key words.

Respond for Jessica Statsky's "Children Need to Play, Not Compete"

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1. This essay is an evaluation for author to evaluate Jessica Statsky's "Children Need to Play, Not Compete". In this essay, writer evaluated the logic of of Statsky's argument, considering whether the support for her thesis is appropriate, believable, consistent, and complete. She used several paragraphs to tell reader that the log of "Children Need to Play, Not Compete" is appropriate, believable, and consistent, but incomplete. 2. When I first read this essay, I think the structure of this essay is very good. She first stated those points she agree in that essay. For this, she mainly focused on the Statsky's logic. She used almost half of her essay to indicate why she like those points. Moreover, she also tell readers those points she doesn't agree. For example, she think Statsky's essay is not complete because it neglects to anticipate parents' predictable questions and objections and because it fails to support certain parts fully. She also used almost half part to support this opinion. I used this structure a lot when I wrote evaluation essay since this structure would evaluate essays thoroughly. Usually, there would some points we agree and some points we are not agree in one's paper. In the evaluation essay, we need to tell other reader our opinion. This would be more objective. 3. The author said Statsky's argument is incomplete in that it fails to anticipate certain objections and questions that some parents, especially those she most wants to convince, are almost sure to raise. I agree with this point. When people try to write a essay to a certain part of people, they need to consider all kinds of people in this group. In Statsky's essay, she didn't influence two types of readers: those who themselves are or were fans of and participant in competitive sports and those who want their six-to-twelve-year-old children involved in mainstream sports program. Clearly, those people would be attracted to her essay because of this topic, so Jessica should put more efforts on how to convince those people. work cited Christine Romano: Jessica statsky's ""Children Need to Play, Not Compete": An Evaluation.

Working at McDonald's

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his main point about the value of part-time jobs for teenager is that those job for teenager should be more creative. Also, those job should help teenager learn about more and more useful skills

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My first reaction is this paper is that this author would tell us some advantages and disadvantages about working at M. Actually, there are just a few high student who would have their first job. Since our Gaokao is extremely competitive, every high school student need 100% attention to focus on their course work from the first day of their collage life. Personally, I prefer to have a job in my high school even I didn't do it. Usually, people start to save money when they start to earn their own salary. Once I know how hard to earn money, I would make a detail plan to spend them. Also, most of teenager have a lot of dreams. They are confused about what they really want to do. Having a job and earn own money would pull them from the sky to the ground and let them think their real life. At this point, teenagers would know what is their real dream and start to work on it.
I don't have a job when I was a teenager, but I think teenager should attend their schoolwork regularly.They have to know that those jobs are not their future job. They need study for their future dream.