News Paper Reading Habits among the Students of Arts Colleges in Madurai, Tamil Nadu: A Study
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https://doi.org/10.51983/ijiss.2017.7.1.459Keywords:
Reading Habits, Arts College Students and User StudyAbstract
Reading is primarily an intellectual activity of learning new things, developing new ideas and it provides a sense of completeness. The reading activity has always been seen as an important element in a person’s culture and education. In this paper it has been discussed about the newspaper reading habits among the Arts College students in Madurai. A total of 220 questionnaires were administered to the students, and 174 were received the response rate was 79%. From the analysis it was discovered that majority of respondents reading newspaper daily (66.09%) and time spent less than 30 minutes are 92 (52.87%) using library for newspaper reading.
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