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The Degrading Reading Habits and Its

Impact on Quality of Education

Presented By:-Maaz Hasan

B.Tech (CSE)Sem -III

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ABSTRACT • Reading habit is an essential and important aspect for creating the

literate society in this world. It shapes the personality of an individual and it helps them to develop the proper thinking methods and creating new ideas. At present, due to the influence of the Mass Media, people could not show much interest in reading the books, magazines and journals etc. Therefore, there is the urgent need to develop the reading habit among the individuals in the society.

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INTRODUCTION Reading habit is an essential and important aspect for creating the literate society in this world. With the onset of technological advancement, where the electronic media has taken over the conventional mode of reading, we conducted this survey to estimate the impact on the quality of education with the degrading reading habits.

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A survey was conducted in the campus of Amity University Madhya Pradesh to know about the reading habits amongst the students. A questionnaire was prepared which covered aspects like the areas of interest and mode of reading and a report was prepared on the basis of the data retrieved.

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ABOUT THE SURVEY

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SURVEY RECORDReading Never

N (%)RarelyN (%)

Sometimes N (%)

OftenN (%)

Very often N (%)

Newspaper 9 (7.3) 30 (24.2) 46 (37.1) 20 (16.1) 19 (15.3)

Magazines 6 (4.8) 30 (24.2) 47 (37.9) 27 (21.8) 14 (11.3)

Textbook 5 (4.0) 32 (25.8) 47 (37.9) 26 (21.0) 14 (11.3)

Novels 22 (17.7) 47 (37.9) 31 (25.0) 19 (15.3) 5 (4.0)

Email 1 (0.8) 13 (10.5) 24 (19.4) 36 (29.0) 50 (40.3)

Online information 0 (0.0) 6 (4.8) 14 (11.3) 42 (33.9) 62 (50.0)

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Topics of Interest N (%)

EntertainmentNews & MediaComputer & InternetRecreation & SportsReferencesArts & HumanitiesHealthBusiness & EconomyEducationGovernmentScience

44 (35.5)38 (30.6)16 (12.9)10 (8.1)5 (4.0)4 (3.2)3 (2.4)1 (0.8)1 (0.8)1 (0.8)1 (0.8

Total 124 (100)

SURVEY RECORD

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CONCLUSION• The results given by the Survey Proved that People who are more

into reading in any format tend to be effective listeners and have better communication skills as compared to those who are less into reading stuff.

• Also, people who read more tend to score higher than the non-readers.

• Reading proves a sense of livelihood and a standard of living amongst the readers.

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