Your Personal Reading Map

1. Your Personal Reading Map: Now

(Your Discourse Communities)

	Me (now)	My parents and family	My best friends	My favorite group or activity: ____________
Greatest goals and values?
What kinds of reading do you/they usually do most?
When do you / they usually read?
Where do you / they usually read the most?
Why (for what purpose) do you / they usually read?
How much do you / they read in an average week?

"It would appear that young people today are doing very little reading of any kind. In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts, consulting a vast array of surveys, including the United States Census, found that just 43% of young people ages 18 to 24 read literature. In 1982, the number was 60%. A majority do not read either newspapers, fiction, poetry, or drama. Save for the possibility that they are reading the Bible or works of non-fiction, for which solid statistics are unavailable, it would appear that this generation is less well read than any other since statistics began to be kept. "

Excerpted from Just How Stupid Are We?, by Rick Shenkman. New York, Basic Books, 2008.

Reproduced under fair use.

2. Your Personal Reading Map:

At the end of this semester.

"Start becoming the change you want to see"

	Me (at the end of the semester)	My parents and family	My best friends	My favorite group or activity: ____________
Greatest goals and values?
What kinds of reading will you / they usually be doing most?
When will you / they usually read?
Where will you / they usually read the most?
Why (for what purpose) will you/they usually read?
How much will they be reading in an average week?

3. Reading: Seven Years After Graduation

"Start becoming the change you want to see"

	Myself, 7 yrs. after I graduate	My work-life 7 years after I graduate	My future family or household	My best friends and colleagues	My favorite free time group or activity: ____________
Greatest goals and values?
What kinds of reading will you / they usually do most?
When will you / they usually read?
Where will you/ they usually read the most?
Why (for what purpose) will you/they usually read?
How much will you./ they read in an average week?

Adapted with permission from Dr. Anne Beaufort's "Discourse Community" Chart, 2007.

For educational purposes only.

OW rev 3/10

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