Effects of the Study Habits

Reading today is a lot different then it was in the year 868 AD; when the first book was published in China. You know a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. Society today is so advanced that everything we do is constantly changing whether we realize it or not. For example, the book, before people would go to a bookstore or library to get the books they were interested in. Today society is making fewer trips to the bookstore and library, and making purchases of novels on their e-readers in the comfort of their own home. With these e-readers you can simply purchase any book you would like, some books being under a buck or even free, saving you a trip to the bookstore. E-readers

Five hundred sixty five students ranging from grade 7 to grade 11 took part in this study. All students enrolled in an

Rabury’s prophecy about society and books today is correct that most people honestly don’t check out or buy a book and read it anymore. The world is so focused on social media including; facebook, twitter, and instagram that they don’t use their free time to read, but to tweet or update their status. Technology has gotten more interesting, and even when some people to read, they can find the book online.

Those who are unlikely to use e-books are hispanic people without high school diploma, the unemployed, rural Americans, and people who have an income lower than $3,000 and that without libraries the division on who reads e-books and those who don't would be greater(source C). Because of this libraries must work to meet the needs of the middle to low class with physical copies books and the higher middle class and upper class with e-books. This means a lot of money would have to go into updating and keeping accurate books and e-books which would be double the effort than what was needed previously when there were only physical copies of books. Libraries are in a tough spot a to meet these demands since there has no been many budget cuts(source F). If funding is being cut and made smaller than it's going to get harder as years past to keep things up to date in both versions. Libraries need to push to get better funding, create programs that fund themselves, updating to modern ways of reading, and keep traditional reading to keep their important role in society that is meant to advocate

Davis gives the reader an overview of what is to be expected in the article including library statistics for the year from public and school libraries and methods currently being used in libraries. The author does not want to limit the research to only one type of library by separating the libraries by academic and public will show the differences in what effect eBooks have had on

Merga, Margaret K. "Are Teenagers Really Keen Digital Readers? Adolescent Engagement in Ebook Reading and the

As a new revolution rears its head due to rapidly evolving technology, many are becoming concerned with the potential problems that e-books could present. Ms. Elliot, a retired librarian, expresses her apprehension and concern for this electronic book form through a speech conducted at the “Reading: the future” forum. Directing her speech to mainly booklovers, she also reaches out to parents whose children will be most affected by the development of e-books.

Whilst investigating my literacy topic on placement I decided to not only interview my mentor teacher but also interview two students to gain their perspective on the use of technology. I believed their point of you view was valuable to my findings and wanted to discover firsthand if students are enjoying and finding the use of technology helpful in their literacy classes. Whilst assisting on placement I approached two children and interviewed them at different times, the two children in particular were very forward and honest when sharing their opinions with me. From their opinions they expressed in the short interview (refer to Appendix 1) it is evident the two students would rather read an eBook than a book and find it exciting and fun, this would cause more engagement and focus on the text. The two students also mentioned that pictures in the eBook are animated and this helps make sense of the story. It is clear that an interactive reading experience, acquires students with a greater comprehension of a text (Hutchison, Beschorner and Schmidt-Crawford 2012). These findings support my research question relating to the importance of learning literacy with the assistance of technology. Another artefact to support this matter (refer to Appendix 2) is a task students completed, which involved them writing up a draft of a poem and later they were to type up the final copy. A number of students were completing their draft on a laptop, I asked the teacher why they were not

I do not know why, but I found myself not interested in books. In general, I think in out culture, reading is not popular as other cultures, and those who love reading is just an exception where the majority do not read. In addition, however, there is a generational shift towards reading habit, I think me and my generation do not read books as those in the previous two or three decades, and that’s due to many factors. Technology is one of the most important factors, one the other hand, Kindle is exploiting technology to make people love reading and it succeeded in doing so with me and others. Unsurprisingly, a study shows that those of age between 19 to 29 are the most prolific E-book readers (1). However,this artifact (E-book) is posing any considerable threat to the hardcopy book industry in the near future. There’s a report shows that a few readers have abandoned the hardcopy books for E-books

Alexandra Alter, a books and book publishing reporter for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), in her article, "Your E-book Is Reading You" discusses the ability for publishers to collect customer reading habits information (analytics) through the use of e-book readers and related software. Prior to working at the WSJ, Alter earned a college degree and master's degrees in journalism and religion from Columbia University. The WSJ is a prestigious newspaper in the United States with over 2 million readers. The WSJ is one of the most widely read newspapers. The target audience for this article consists of general book readers and consumers using e-book readers. The article is a timely as in 2012; the Pew Research Center released a report demonstrating

This article addressed the topic about how many book that American people read. Based on this article, the authors reported that US people read only a single book with 12 months; however, the statistic shows an increasing trends in reading the digital books.

I found your reply very relatable. I understood when you said it might be difficult for you when going to college because the study habits aren’t there yet, but don’t worry, I too hardly study. I think that’s what Lopez is trying to get across, as we do these dual credit classes, we’ll be going into college thinking we know everything. Although once being there we won’t have the help from our fellow classmates, and we’ll be going at different paces. It could possibly be a whole different ball game for us next year.

The seller of digital textbooks will also be saving money over producing hard copies. 32% of the cost allocated to paper, printing and editorial can be completely eliminated along with 22.4% of costs related to bookstore operations and personnel. Bookstores as we know them could become obsolete or transformed into stores that sell tablets, e-readers and software packages on campus. Publishers or sellers will now be able to tap into a more global market with electronic textbooks as the information can be translated into many languages quickly.

Factors Influencing Study Habits There are many factors which affect study habits such as emotional, environmental, biological, social and psychological. Emotional factors: Motivation, responsibility, and persistence are those emotional factors which may influence study. Bad study habits can be transformed into productive habits through identification and modification.

During the development of technology, most people have shifted to use electronic books to read both academic and non-academic texts. However, despite the technological changes, there has been a wide debate about the benefits of paper books over the e-books. It is important to understand that various reasons are suggesting why people should shift back to using the traditional books rather than the electronic ones. Even though some think that e-books are better that traditional ones, I believe that readers should return to traditional books because of various reasons.