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In this exercise, you will define and discuss the concepts of Learning and Theory. Please save this document and type directly on this worksheet. Every response should be substantive and requires a minimum of 3 to 5 complete sentences per response.

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Refer to “Exercise 2.3: VARK Learning Styles Assessment,” on pages 54-56 of your textbook.
Complete the exercise to discover your learning style. You do not need to submit your answers to the exercise.

1. What is your learning style? Well I believe the learning skill that I prefer would mostly be kinesthetic with reading/writing a close second. I see Kinesthetic as being more hands on and just push your way in to get the information. That is how I am sometimes. Read/writing skill is what I do in class or at work with the paragraphs that I answer or the plan diagram readouts at work to perceive the data from. Then I will put a scratch draft down from myself to explain to the co-workers. I must read and rewrite then till I am comfortable with them.

2. Describe three specific characteristics of your learning style.
Kinesthetic is the ability of using you entire body/ body-language to interpret or perceive statistics or data from what/who you are interpreting. Kinesthetic is hands on learning, sink or swim. Ironically that was the way I Learned to swim. Reading/ writing is the action of intake of data and comprehension, then output the knowledge in ways to make yourself not forget answers or details about the certain person, article, or diagram. Reading/ writing is usefully to those like me who know how to use it, and have been for years. I would take my notes from lectures (which were horrible in my opinion) read them to get the core of the orientation then do a quick study/research on what I have then. Write a draft, alter and then format the ideas from their and design

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