Results indicate that, for students, reading is a motivated behavior, with the specific motives varying across different groups of students and leading to different consequential actions. Academically strong students appear to read with the primary goal of understanding assig...
articles and PDFs. And with swift attempts made out of desperation, students have begun trying to minimize their material load as much as possible by skimming through the articles, textbooks, novels, and other material they’ve been assigned — rather than taking time to sit down and read ...
We also consider the distinct temporal experience of reading a graphic novel and suggest that the unique temporality of both the assigned reading and teacher-participants' lives may encourage/discourage dwelling in discomfort. In closing, we discuss possible curricular and pedagogic shifts we might ...