11B: Comparing Questions

As college students, we need to learn how to put more thought into our readings, and answer college level based questions on the readings, as well. This week, we were all told to come up with 4 good inquiry questions based on the readings we had for class. Looking through other peoples blogs I found many that I thought were college leveled questions, and have chosen a few that I really liked. 

One of the questions was from Sam’s blog (samanthamonaco.blogspot.com), and asked:
“4: Most people believe that there are only benefits from making a task easier. The author Ian Leslie of “Creativity, Education, and the Gift of Stress” explains his take on this matter. What was his take? How did the advent of the home computer affect young poetry in the example provided?”

I thought that her question was very well thought out, and didn't just ask one specific question, she asked a couple, and you needed to dig deep inside the readings to locate the answers. This type of question is good because it shows if you really read the article first of all, and if you analyzed it well enough to retain a good answer. The answer that she wrote was also very well thought out and answered all the parts of the question. She gave all specific examples from the article to know that she did know what he was talking about, and that she could answer it in a very organized way.

One other question that I found to be a very good one was from Steph’s blog (http://stepphhr7.blogspot.com/). I liked two of her questions, one was “How does the creative industry hold people who are creative ransom to their own self-image?” and the other was “What are ways we can promote more creativity? Why are these important looking towards the future?” I thought both of those questions were very college based because they call for your own thoughts rather than taking information from the readings and putting it into an answer. This is a good type of question, because it’s not really considered ‘college based’ question unless you are putting your own thought into it, and thinking about what you read, rather than taking it straight from the article and putting it into an answer. In college, your teachers don’t expect you to read your readings and retain all of the information straight out. Instead, they want you to put more thought into it, and analyze the question more so that they know you are thinking in a more "college" way. 

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