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Justice Robnolte
Marisa Enos
Eng.111.W03
24 April 2018
getting particularly inadequate in the amount of attention they put into their work. Their poor
choice in learning habits can be seen as not understanding how to study or can be seen as
incompetency and laziness. Teachers have been given the bad rep from day one as the reason for
shoddy grades, but has anyone ever thought that maybe the grades are a view point of the amount
education, and students should understand that they have more than enough attention to give.
The amount of time and attention a student gives to an assignment shows in the final
result but having a positive learning outcome in the classroom is also essential. The student first
needs to comprehend the information before absorbing themselves in learning it completely, and
it seems that students aren’t grasping the information and are more-or-less just ‘winging’
learning. Robert Leamnson, Professor of Biology at UoM, Dartmouth, explains it best in his
article, “The Biological Basis of Learning.” In the article, Leamnson says that learning needs to
be picked apart and looked at intently for the student to fully understand what they’re learning.
conceptualization” don’t seem to add all that much to the original.” (Leamnson 66) He is stating
that without understanding, comprehension, and so forth, students cannot understand learning on
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a personal level. Students do not use the accessibility of the teacher to better understand the
information in front of them, but rather look it up on the internet for an “easy A” assignment.
This is where the issue of high school to college level thinking is a swing and a miss ballfield – if
the student continues to assess school work as it should be “easily manageable”, and continue to
do work without any feeling involved, their college grades will show serious repercussions. To
study without feeling is harder to do for students. They need that type of connection to their
work, or else the assignment itself will seem disconnected from the topic. With that
This is the learning curve that comes with transitioning into the adult learning level of
education. When entering college, a student should look at their schoolmates as colleagues at
work, and their professors should be seen as – well, as they should be – teachers. Professors are
there to help students, but for some reason, students don’t seem to want to help themselves, when
all the need to do is speak in a proper manner to be taken seriously. Iliana Miller, faculty here at
MMCC in the English and Humanities department, describes it as a “threshold” in her article, “A
Troublesome Threshold,” where she goes into detail of how freshmen students seem to have the
most trouble with trying to step over that threshold into a higher level of learning, and explains
what happens when students are able to reach this threshold, “Once beyond the threshold,
students realize they are invited into all the conversations that surround them, and in doing so,
we hope they enter their future different communities of academic writers without being singled
out immediately as a newcomer in the group.” (Miller 6) Within her writings, Miller gives
students the answer to doing better in college: Just listen and ask questions. By asking questions,
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students could easily be solving the issue to their problems within their work. Asking for help is
If a student isn’t asking questions, it could be viewed as a bad learning habit, or room for
improvement – hence the idea of learning. Adding habits to gain attention to detail is one of the
few issues most students have with transitioning into adult learning – effectively lowering the
amount of attention given to their first year as Freshmen college students. Students should try to
form good habits of studying and learning, not just in the beginning of their college life, but
throughout it as well. Within studying and learning, comes a higher attention rate, which can
effectively help students in any future endeavor they choose to take on. James VanderMey, a
teacher here at MMCC, told a speech at the 35th Annual Honors Convocation titled, “Remarks on
Habit.” Within this speech, VanderMey gave a list of good learning/study habits all degree
holders should have by the end of their undergraduate life and could be a nice goal for students
to attempt and reach in their future. Considering the amount, below are listed a few main
learning/studying habits that should be already be formed by the end of a students’ Freshmen
Year, “The good habits of analytic inquiry; The good habits of engaging with diverse
perspectives; The good habits of learning collaboratively and cooperatively.” (VanderMey 14)
If students chose to engage in conversations at a more defined level of learning, and were active
and engaged with their learning, they could see less downfall, and more uprising in their grades
Although school may be difficult, it can be a mountain to climb if a student isn’t giving it
the right amount of time and attention. Whether they are troubled with understanding the work,
education becomes a greater want. Education is all about transitioning into paying attention to
the details implemented by the student. Students choosing to pay less attention to their education
is harmful in a way that is also hurting their future. Without attention, adult learners will
effectively ruin their chances of a better future. In what working environment is attention not
necessary? Gaining attentiveness in the beginning of any goal is helpful and will provide a way
of succeeding.
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