Judy--

This is about your word anxiety.  I have NONE for using the WP, but I 
have found that  word skills related to the  library are ever 
expanding.

i do my work often at Widener Library, Harvard, which is home to about  
7 million books, all told--3.5 million in the big  building, then 3.5 
million in the depository.

The floors go DEEP  into the ground, and I have anxiety about the 
floors collapsing....BURIED IN BOOKS!

Two techniques, simple ones, for expanding book  knowledge:  1) Use the 
bibliographies of the books you are reading for further research;  2) 
Use the shelves  where you have found the books to get  more 
information, Books on a topic are put together--this is something that 
I don't think people think about, though it is so easy to do.

Also, if you have questions about a book, email the author!  Send an 
email to the publisher of the book, with a catchy subject line, and 
most likely (in my case this has happened) the publisher will send you 
to the editor, who will then send you to the author.

Andrea


On Jun 21, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Judy Ward wrote:


> Greetings to everyone,

>

> Since this is a women and literacy list serve I assume that all have a 

> deep

> concern and interest in advancing women through a literacy perspective.

> Also, I assume that you all love reading and writing and would like to 

> help

> others feel the same way.

>

> To get the numeracy and math anxiety discussion going I would like to 

> begin

> from a different direction. I would like to tell you a little about my

> "anxiety" with English class during my k-12 years. Although I never 

> made bad

> grades, English class was a challenge for me. Remembering all the 

> sentence

> structure rules was overwhelming and didn't make sense. Diagramming a

> sentence, as well as the other 10 or so that were assigned, was a 

> painful

> task. The process didn't make sense to me and I wasn't able to carry 

> the

> exercise over to writing.

>

> Writing was and still is another challenge and most of the time almost 

> a

> painful experience for me. You could say that my anxiety about putting 

> words

> on paper is a stumbling block and I have to work extremely hard just 

> to get

> started. There are times when I must write something important, like 

> now,

> that my stomach gets knots in it, my mind goes blank and I have to 

> write and

> rewrite over and over. Just before I send this email my anxiety level 

> will

> increase drastically because someone will read this and find mistakes 

> or

> think the writing is terrible. Where does this anxiety come from? 

> Probably

> past experiences with teachers that loved and knew their subject but 

> didn't

> teach the way I learn. We know a lot more now about how learning takes 

> place

> than in my k-12 years.

>

> Now, for today's discussion question: Is there a relationship between

> literacy and the content in a typical English class in the US?

>

> I look forward to the discussion.

>

> Judy Ward

>

>

>

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