Created by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingram in 1955, The Johari Window was designed tocreate awareness in relationships or in groups of people. The use of the Johari Window is usedmost in education, counseling, social workers, and psychology. The model can also be helpfulfor team building, education, couples counseling, and group training. Johari Window is a two bytwo model with four quadrants. Each quadrant represents one of the four areas: open area, blindarea, hidden area, and unknown area. Using the Johari Window can determine the size of thearea that is used most in relations by asking questions or giving feedback. A change in the size ofan area will change the size of the other areas; using the principle of change can help withunderstanding …show more content…
The best way tominimize the size of the unknown area is to ask questions, share information, and to listen to thefeedback from others (Armstrong, 2006). Armstrong (2006) also explains that the unknown areacan lead to fighting or dreadful silences between couples. The size of each area can fluctuatethroughout time and interaction.Each quadrant size can change when more information and feedback is provided. As Luft(1961) explains that when people are put with in a new group, the open area is small becausethere is not much information that is being shared and not much information that is alreadyknown. Over time as the group ask questions and sharing information, quadrant one will expand.Quadrant one becomes bigger because more information is being shared and others are able toget a better understanding of each other (Luft 1961). It may take more time for quadrant two toget smaller because we always worry about the blind surprises but over time we will create atrust with others (Luft 1961). According to Luft (1961), the third quadrant can change oncepeople learn more information about others. Luft (1961) explains that the quadrant four is one ofthe largest quadrants in the beginning because there is so much unknown information that has yetto be discovered.When creating the Johari Window, Luft (1961) created principles of changethat goes over how changes in any quadrant can affect the …show more content…
Another way to usethe Johari Model is to help understand the characteristics in literature. Luethel Kormanski (1988)uses the areas of the Johari Window to help analysis the characters in literature by using thebehaviors and motives from the stories. Kormanski (1988) believes that “this strategy allowsteachers to encourage critical thinking and reading skills in adolescent readers, as well as todevelop their appreciation for the development of character.” Teachers are able to use the JohariWindow to make the readers more aware of what the authors or characters motives are. TheJohari Window has been able to help people become more aware of their relationships withothers.Overall, after being able to understand what each quadrant represents what is known byyourself and others can help create a strong bond in relationships. The Johari Window uses self-disclosure and feedback to create the different size quadrants to help create bettercommunication among the group of people. Being able to use the Johari Window in differentprofessions helps workers communicate with each other and helps them communicate with theirclients. It is important when creating strong interpersonal skills to understand how much youknow and how much other people
How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C Foster is a how to do book that teaches children how to become better readers. The novel was written in second person. The purpose of this novel is to inform readers on details that they wouldn’t usually realize in literature. Students who read Thomas C Foster’s How to Read Literature like a Professor are suppose to gain knowledge of how to identify details of their story that have connections to other literature or have alternative meanings that the author is trying to get across to the reader. Thomas C Foster believes reading his novel can help develop you into a better reader. He believes this because the information that he includes can apply to your reading. When you realize the connections he talks about, it gives you a better understanding of the book you are reading.
In conclusion, the brilliant novel “How To Read Literature Like A Professor” by Thomas C. Foster is a fantastic novel that helps grasp the basic ideas and structure that makes up a work of literature. Foster’s laid-back attitude made a major contribution to the great tone of the novel, and made it easier to understand. Many connections were included in the novel, along with some great quotes. After reading this novel, I have a better idea of what to look for when reading a novel.
Without much thought, authors use brilliant techniques in order to portray the images and stories that they wish to tell. The novel, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, by Thomas C Foster, helps readers discover the hidden truths among literature and the brilliant techniques that the authors use as well as learn how to add innovative concepts into their writing in order to portray exactly what they are trying to say. It is evident that in A Thousand Splendid Suns the author, Khaled Hosseini, unconsciously uses some of the brilliant concepts that Foster addresses in his book. Khaled Hosseini, the accomplished author, habitually uses the concepts by Thomas C Foster in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, therefore making Hosseini an iconic author.
reader is reading literature that they can relate to. An example of this is coming of age stories.
Over the summer, after taking a break from reading a novel just for entertainment, I sat down to read How to Read Literature like a Professor and it was the exact novel to refresh and supplement my dusty analysis skills. After reading and applying Foster’s novel, How to Read Literature like a Professor, towards The Bonesetter’s Daughter I found a previously elusive and individualized insight towards literature. Although, The Bonesetter’s Daughter is full of cryptic messages and a theme that is universal, I was able to implement an individual perspective on comprehending the novel’s universal literary devices, and coming upon the unique inference that Precious Auntie is the main protagonist of the novel.
Kahn's modern design takes full advantage of the atmosphere by opening up a broad plaza between two research and lab wings providing a view of the beautiful Pacific Ocean and the coastline (Ghirardo 227). The laboratories are separated from the study areas, and each study has a view of the magnificent blue Pacific with horizontal light pouring in. This allows scientists to take a break from their frantic studies and clear their minds with a breath-taking view. In relation to this idea Kahn stated, "I separated the studies from the laboratory and placed them over the gardens. Now one need not spend all the time in the laboratories" (Ronner 158). The two lab wings are symmetrical about a small stream ...
Prose has noticed through her experience that college students are unable to read even the basic pieces of literature. Some are also “incapable of doing the close line-by-line reading necessary to disclose the most basic information.” This is due to the little concentration and focus on the writing of a book. These students are also the ones who loathe literature. The students are quick to make judgements about books and their character because they have been taught that in high school. This is taught to them through reading questions asking about the student’s opinion on a certain character or even the author. This diverts their minds totally from learning about literature to learning about how to judge a character or story.
Furthermore, the writer also develops a suspenseful mood by creating a calm and peaceful attitude of the main character in a strange and cryptic setting. The purpose of the diction that the author uses is to develop an understanding of the main character’s attitude. Moreover, it gives the readers the opportunity to feel the same emotions and feelings of the characters, as if they were in there shoes. As a final point, the writer includes a specific tone in order to make the readers develop a feeling towards the main character such as feeling sincere towards a character, or rather despising them.
The use of many different literary devices has allowed the reader to read the story with a great interest. These different techniques have allowed the author to create different affects within the text such as suspense, imagery, resolution, mood and spelling. These techniques have enhanced the way characters communicate with each other and have added reality within the text. This novel is a real life example which let us know that how teenagers face different problems at a certain point of life when there is no one to help/support them. If someone is in a huge trouble, then there will always be a Thunderwith to help them.
Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Literature like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading between the Lines. New York: Quill, 2003. Print.
Through vivid yet subtle symbols, the author weaves a complex web with which to showcase the narrator's oppressive upbringing. Two literary critics whose methods/theories allow us to better comprehend Viramontes. message are Jonathan Culler and Stephen Greenblatt. Culler points out that we read literature differently than we read anything else. According to the intertextual theory of how people read literature, readers make assumptions (based on details) that they would not make in real life.
... also allows for deeper plot development with the characters back stories and ties two seemingly unrelated events into one flowing story removing the need to use in medias res. The shared point of view is extreamly important in connecting the story with the theme and allows for the reader to pick up on the foreshadowing and irony present throughout the story.
...ruly realize the false reality that literature made. The reader also has a huge role into expressing these false realities to the public, which can cause prejudice in the near future. People need to be open and understanding of different people and situations. Perspective plays a huge role into the thinking of a human mind, and readers should be more aware of the information’s brought upon different ways. Readers should not come up with a preconceived idea based upon the beliefs of other people perspective but should experience these different societies.
Foster, Thomas C. How to read literature like a professor. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2003. Print.
Literary criticism is used as a guideline to help analyze, deconstruct, interpret, or even evaluate literary works. Each type of criticism offers its own methods that help the reader to delve deeper into the text, revealing all of its innermost features. New Criticism portrays how a work is unified, Reader-Response Criticism establishes how the reader reacts to a work, Deconstructive Criticism demonstrates how a work falls apart, Historical Criticism illustrates how the history of the author and the author’s time period influence a text, and last of all, Psychological Criticism expresses how unconscious motivations drive the author in the creation of their work as well as how the reader’s motivations influence their own interpretation of the text (Lynn 139, 191). This creates a deep level of understanding of literature that simply cannot be gained through surface level reading. If not one criticism is beneficial to the reader, then taking all criticisms or a mixture of specific criticisms into consideration might be the best way to approach literary