Awake = Reader's Digest for Dummies
Good one Funkyderek! So true. Although I have have done no actually testing of the language level in the Awake mag, my years of experience in education tell me that it is around a grade 5/6 level. Anyone heard any different? Secondly, I have been and still am finishing off a degree in university. Let me tell you the hardest things I had to learn: 1) Coming up with my OWN answer, essays are not about the right answer, they are about being able to sufficiently support your thesis in a coherent, smooth manner that befits the higher field of education. In other words, they would not TELL me the answer, I had to come up with one of many possibilities myself and then support my thoughts with references, and use English spelling, grammar, sentence structure etc, as perfectly as possible. 2) References. EVERYTHING has to be references, all articles, quotes, web pages, books, videos etc. "Works Cited" or whatever you call it. Old fashion way is Footnotes. SO, the Awake is NOT = to a college education for the simple fact that it is READING. Certainly NOT forming a thesis, supporting or challenging the material, expanding the material with your own viewpoints, etc. What a load of crap to say that....education is NOT reading and regurgitation. SECONDLY, the Awake references NOTHING....just like "a sister in Toronto said...." What was her name? or half quotes, or quotes out of context....who wrote the article? etc.... The stupid Awake does not teach you to question your sources. It teaches the opposite. THAT is not education. Jez