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The Decline of Reading: Implications for Employment and Society

The 2007 NEA study, "To Read or Not To Read," reveals concerning trends in reading habits among Americans. As time spent reading declines, so do reading comprehension skills, with serious implications for civic engagement, social cohesion, and economic performance. Proficient readers are significantly more likely to secure high-paying jobs, whereas basic readers face employment challenges. The study highlights a pressing need for enhanced literacy education, especially given the rising demand for reading and writing skills in the workforce.

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The Decline of Reading: Implications for Employment and Society

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  1. English 1213Dr. Miller Session 3 Catalog Frederic Murray, M.L.I.S.

  2. NEA Study 2007:To Read or Not To Read • Americans are spending less time reading • Reading comprehension skills are eroding • These declines have serious civic, social, cultural and economic implications

  3. To Read or Not To Read • More than 60% of employed Proficient readers have jobs in management or in the business, financial, professional and related sectors • Only 18% of Basic reader are employed in those fields • Proficient readers are 2.5 times as likely as Basic readers to be earning $850 or more a week -U.S. Dept. of Ed: Nat. Center for Education Statistics 2005

  4. To Read or Not To Read • Employers now rank reading and writing as top deficiencies in new hires • Remedial writing courses are estimated to cost more than $3.1 billion for large corporate employers and $221 for state employers

  5. Reading is Transformative • Jimmy Santiago Baca • Dorothy Allison • Larry Heinemann

  6. SHAQ…

  7. Review • Keyword vs. Subject • Boolean • Limiters

  8. Keyword example: execution 1: the act or process of executing : performance 2: a putting to death especially as a legal penalty 3: the process of enforcing a legal judgment (as against a debtor) ; also : a judicial writ directing such enforcement 4: the act or mode or result of performance

  9. Keywords: Synonyms Keyword: execution Part of Speech: noun Synonyms: accomplishment, completion, consummation, decapitation, doing, effectuation, electrocution, fulfillment, garrote, guillotine, killing, lapidation, noyade, performance, perpetration, realization, strangulation, transaction

  10. Catalog: Database: Internet : Direct marketing : strategy, planning, execution / Edward L. Nash Forward chaining in HALO: An implementation strategy for history-based logic pointcuts FOXNews.com - Anger After Cheerleaders Stage Mock Execution at Pep Rally “Execution” in an Online Search

  11. Searches Use Boolean • execution and business • execution and prison • execution and “dance moves”

  12. Finding books • Catalog • Use keyword searching with Boolean operators • Subject searching is like using a thesaurus • Limiters

  13. SWOSU Catalog

  14. Open WorldCat

  15. Ebrary • Ebrary provides more than 44,000 digital books in a broad range of subject areas, including business, technology, health and medicine, literature and the humanities, physical sciences, social sciences, and interdisciplinary studies. Ebrary digital books contain the full-text and illustrations of their print counterparts

  16. Exercise • Catalog worksheet • SWOSU • WorldCat • Topic: U.S.A. Presidential Elections

  17. Thank You Frederic Murray M.L.I.S. frederic.murray@swosu.edu 580 774 7113

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