Flowers and Plants Presentation

Hypothesis and testing

Lauren Couch - MEDA 5950

Hypothesis

The purpose of this paper was to highlight and examine public‐library‐based, online book clubs for preteens and teens. The hypothesis, however, was a bit unclear to me. I believe that the hypothesis of this article is, " Public library online book clubs are sites of possibility – a medium through which libraries can more readily encourage literate practices in younger generations".

Hypothesis

"Public library online book clubs are sites of possibility – a medium through which libraries can more readily encourage literate practices in younger generations."

The article consisted of lots of statistical and quantitative data. It was also full of intriguing research. It immediately starts by telling its readers that reading for pleasure and reading test scores have been drastically declining for the past 20 years. (This was published in 2009) There is also plenty of research pointing to online book clubs- which is what I believe is the hypothesis. The article tells us that these online book clubs "provide the security and affordances the library also deems necessary to host safe, fun online book clubs for kids".

Research

Testing

I felt as if there could have been better testing done for this article. The article itself was interesting to read about, but I felt that it lost focus throughout. While it started in the correct place, it seemed that it really started to focus on the bookThe Tales of Emily Windsnap rather than the actual book clubs and the testing portion of the clubs. The hypothesis was very unclear and the article seemed to focus more on a particular book than the different types of book clubs.

Cassandra M. Scharber, Ann Melrose, Jody Wurl, (2009) "Online book clubs for preteens and teens", Library Review, Vol. 58 Iss: 3, pp.176 - 195

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