what is reading or studying mean to you?

Question

I like reading with different materials. In our society, books are not the only resource for gaining the informations. I read for my interested and hobbies, not only for a certificate or degree. What is your opinons for reading or study? Will it only for the cert? So, what is more advantage benefits?

Answer 1

Reading is just a means of studying and learning. Reading an artistic material or any explanations from books from whatever source can lead to open horizons for another explanations of people's ideas for better understanding.

It is also good to be cautious in not readily accepting ideas, for some ideas can mislead. So, one has to be critically minded to segregate and distil information from good and bad, from truth and fiction.
I think the best basis for this will be the credibility of the author, the time when it was written.

Reading is a communication between the reader and the author.
There are different kinds of reading. To mention some:
Aesthetic reading - reading for feelings
Efferent reading - reading for meanings

Remember, the reader is in the play of words. These depends on what the reader understands in what the author wanted to convey.

A good reader will in turn makes a good writer. The understanding of the reader is well appreciated if it is translated into words for the others to learn.

Thus I would say that: Reading is also a form and method of studying.

Try to explore a link below, it may help.
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/CriNonfiction.html


GUIDES FOR AESTHETIC READING
FOCUS: QUESTIONS
First Reaction:What is your first reaction or response to the text? Describe or explain it briefly.
Feelings:What feeling did the text awaken in you? What emotions do you feel as you read the text?
Perceptions:What did you see happening in the text? Paraphrase it, re-tel1 the major events brief1y.
Visual Images:What image was called to mind by the text? Describe it brief1y
Associations:What memory does the text call to mind of people, places, events, sights, and smells or even of something more ambiguous, perhaps feelings or attitudes?
Thoughts, Ideas:What idea or thought was suggested by the text? Explain it brief1y.
Selection of Textual Elements:Upon what in the text did you focus most intently as you read? What is this word, phrase, image or idea?
Judgment of Importance:What is the most important word in the text? What is the most important phase in the text? What is the most important aspect of the text?
Identification of ProblemsWhat is the most difficult word in the text? What is there in the text or in your reading that you have the most trouble understanding?
Author:What sort of person do you imagine the author of this text to be?
Patterns of Response: How did you response to the text emotionally or intellectually? Did you feel involved with the text or distant from it?
Other Readings: How did your reading of the text differ from that of your discussion partner? In what ways were they simi1ar?
Evolution of your reading: How did your understanding of the text or your feelings about it change as you talked?
Evaluation: Do you think the text is or not a good one why?
Literary Associations:Does this text call to mind any other literary work (poem, play, film, story-any genre)? If it does, what is the work and what is the connection you see between the two?
Writing: If you were to be asked to write about your reading of this text, upon what would you focus? Would you write about some association or memory, some aspect of the text itself, about the author, or about some other matter?
Other Readers: What did you observe about your discussion partner as the talk progressed?

From my old Notes of the Course:
Critique of Modern & Contemporary Literature
University of San Carlos Professor: Dr. Juliet V. Basa
June 1992

Answer 2

How about studying the original languages of the Bible? I have taken on that endeavor a few years ago. It is fascinating what you can learn from learning the original Hebrew and Greek. I say you are doing all the right things. Don't stop what you are doing. May I suggest reading a book on the History of Christianity? Learn just how the Christian faith that you know know was handed down through the last 1900 years. I would love to spend time in Bible study with you.

Answer 3

i spend 5 hours of my day on the web just to find out answers to my question and read books untill i fall into sleep
the more i read and study the more i understand that i know
too little
i enjoy my life this way also i love going to caves and search
they are wxciting
every knowledge is exciting to me and am unable to choose only one or two subject to think of.
though i am 52 ,i feel like a curious teen and the same young
but the study itself is not my aim,it is just a road to the truth
i do not believe that any body be really stupid and the best example in great Einstein who was nicknamed as "The grandfather of stupidity" in school ,but he proved that he was not
so what is the use of a degree when it becomes a goal?will it not stop you observing the real goal?
a curious mind is a border less world.

Answer 4

defnetly not just for a cert, I took classes to improve some skills, understand some sciences. and I read books fo the same purpose. I already have a degree and thinking to prepare for another one

Answer 5

Freedom

Answer 6

I read for pleasure, I study so I know how to do stuff. Degrees are merely a side benefit.