Brooks Antweil

Victorian Literature

Learning Record Supplement A.1.

            My learning styles (introverted, intuitive, thinking, judging) seem to describe me pretty well.  I think that the “intuitive” category in particular describes me as a good reader.  All good readers need to have a “high tolerance for theory” because a lot of reading is about seeing the over-all concept.  I am a critical reader; as I read I think things like “what is the main idea here?” and “why was this written?”  I also agree that I like to explore the subtleties and complexities of things as I read them.  Another thing that I see as a good quality in a reader/writer is the introvert’s preference to writing over oral responses.  I would also rather take a written test over a multiple choice test any day.

            The style that I think describes me best as a writer  is “judging.”  As I read something I am always judging it, and I hold my writing to the same standard.  I often find myself comparing things that I read to one another.  I am also very nit-picky about proper grammar and word usage; if I am looking over a friend’s shoulder as s/he writes, I cannot help but correct their improper grammar and incorrect word usage.

            As before stated, the style that best represents me as a reader is intuition.  I do like to look under the surface and read between the lines to figure out what a writer really means when s/he says something.  When I began reading works critically (in high school), I did not really like the way that students are meant to pick apart an author’s words to find inner meaning because I thought that a writer only means exactly what s/he says.  I later found that I could not help but look for deeper meanings in every work I read because it helped me relate and understand the work more.

            Except for a few minor discrepancies, the Meyers-Briggs type test was spot on about my personality.