Pre Meeting Graduate Student Self Evaluation

If a person wishes to be up to date on what is going on the world around them, in all facets and walks of life, then they must spend a considerable portion of time merely skimming the water of each pool of knowledge, never having the time to truly sink their feet in. This correlates directly back to the massively increased availability of information and writings, whose shoulders Birkerts puts the blame of our loss upon. Nicholas Carr cites a study done on the “behavior of visitors to two popular research sites” which gives its users an even larger degree of online texts.

I am pleased to state that I have been a registered nurse for forty years. At this moment, I continue working in nursing while pursuing my Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. My intended month of completion is October 2012. My experience in nursing education has motivated me to continue my education and pursue a Masters degree in a nursing related field commencing in 2013. Thus, in terms of my career planning, my education is a crucial part to my professional development. Extending and deepening one's education, especially within the career field of one's choice, can only bring upon additional professional opportunities as well as opportunities for personal growth. My career planning includes building upon my decades of experience in obstetrics, my particular area of specialty, expertise, and passion, with the assistance and addition of higher education. I believe in terms of career planning, my strengths include foresight, preparation, internal motivation, and focus.

Engineers will want to carefully read the information presented, perhaps even a couple times through to fully grasp what they read. In the end spending ample time to fully explore the article. This shows that the genre itself is meant for

Since I was little, I have a habit of reading the newspaper. This habit helps me to keep up

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The performances of a group of interns are evaluated by their supervisors at the end of their internships.

When in school, upon given any assignment, I would research, research and research again all the main components of the assignment. I love to know what’s next and what certain things mean. Independent research is a lot easier for me. I can process my thoughts and

Over the summer, I have been reading weekly and sometimes a day to day basis.

Many researches has been performed, showing a new type of reading. Many people today do not read the article or passage, they just skim the entire information given for key information.

all the time…so I read whatever I can get my hands on. But I only read what the librarian says is

In addition to that I generally read the science pages from the New York Times and the front page of CNN from the web daily.

Technological advances have shaped this era into what it is today. From news articles to Facebook posts, we are always reading throughout the day. In the article, “Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text” by The Onion in the book Everyone’s an Author, raises questions how reading habits have changed over the past couple generations. One has to wonder what text we take the time to read and what text we do not take the time to read. Everyday advertisements, articles, and many other texts pry for our attention. In this day and age, people want information right away. This article shows how reading habits by Americans have shifted over the past few decades and generations.

You stated in your posting, “ Brandgruwel, Wopereis, and Vermetten (2005) states: not all resources are created equal, and learners must be judicious in their approach to evaluating research. Information literacy requires a learner to identify, understand, and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each source before they can use it.” This statement is absolutely true, because a student of higher education must be able to read through articles and papers and be able to see the strength and weakness of a particular paper and be able to analyze the information to see how this either applies to what they are looking for or be able to identify if it does not. Scholarly research and reading can be time consuming and overbearing at times, because there are often times so

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Reading is one of my favorite pastimes. I am a tuned-in Reader, and I appreciate well written biographies. Enjoyable reading takes my mind off school work and relaxes me. I enjoy academic reading as well, but sometimes it is intense and requires much concentration. Moreover, I am a tuned in reader when it comes to academic subject’s such as; psychology, nutrition, health and history.