Writing Assignment

Read and write a review of one of the following papers:

Shaywitz, S.E. (1996). Dyslexia. Scientific American, November.

Werker, J. F. (1989). Becoming a native listener. American Scientist, Vol. 77, pp. 100-105.

Linderholm, T., Gernsbacher, M. A., van den Broek, P. Neninde, L., Robertson, R. R. W., Sundermier, B. (2004). Supression of story character goals during reading. Discourse Processes, 37(1), 67-78.

Walczyk, Mariglia, C. S. Johns, A.K., Bryan, K. S. (2004). Children’s compensations for poorly automated reading skills. Discourse Processes, 37(1), 47-66.

The papers are on reserve at the New Library under Psy 301.

The review should highlight the major points of the paper. What is important in the research? What problems are they investigating? How are they investigating it? You should also provide some additional discussion about the implications of the paper for such areas as learning, training, reading, or understanding how the brain processes language. For example, what are the implications for: learning to read, training children with Dyslexia, for learning languages? How would you implement such training programs? What are the implications for how the brain organizes information?

The review should be approximately two to thee pages long. All papers must be typed.

Papers are due in class on Tuesday, April 15th. (note the syllabus said it was due the 13^th, but I’ll give you the extra two days!)

Grades will be assigned as:

√ +	= 100%
√	= 85%
√-	= 65%
-	= 50%