Feb 15 Blog

    In their article, Motivation in Literacy Development, Hugo Perez and Cecchini  interview 8 honor students at the University of Central Florida and see how they read and write. Perez explores what effect motivation has on learning literacy. They go through different major elements that they might view as major contributors to students' literacy based on what they learned from their interviews. Technology was a major element and so was motivation. They argue that it is not always the literacy sponsor that helps students learn. The literacy sponsors will have little to no affect if the student is not motivated to actually want to learn the material.
1.) The authors of this article did not include their own histories in the text; rather they used the histories of some students to help portray their ideas. Although most authors do include some of their own history to help support their ideas, it was probably a good idea in this instance for them to use the histories of current students rather than their own so the input they get is a little more contemporary.
2.) I refer to myself in 1st person because it makes my writing a little more personal. To me the usage of 3rd person to talk about myself seems a bit awkward and the reader may not know that I am talking about myself.
     The article was not very interesting  and although made some good points, did a bad job keeping my attention. The article was a bit lengthy but all in all it was okay. There were some sections of the reading that I did find a little intriguing like interviewing the successful students which makes their content a little more relatable to students. I am not saying that this article is not helpful or even informative, it just simply did not do a sufficient job of keeping my attention.