SQR 4 J.J. Zapata & Jaime Garza

Jesus Zapata & Jaime Garza
ENG 1320/1301. 161
Trang Phan
9/23/2010

Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning: SQR 4

Christina Haas and Linda Flower describe that rhetorical reading is important to critical reading because in order to be a good writer, you need to be an excellent reader. Rhetorical reading is a great tool students can develop while they are writing papers and also reading papers. People however must be able to construct and elaborate on whatever they are trying to demonstrate, and to do this they need strategies like rhetorical reading to do so. Students can easily learn how to read rhetorically by reading each other’s papers. When beginning reading, they need to identify topic sentences, introductions like their thesis, conclusions, generalizations, and the details that the writer supports. They need to really understand what they are reading and become critical readers. To be critical, you have to really concentrate what you are reading very closely in order to evaluate well. Readers need to build representations and use reading strategies and they will become good at rhetorical reading. Rhetorical reading is a strategy to refer to conventional, generic, functions of texts. This strategy takes a step beyond any text itself. It uses cues in text, and has knowledge of discourse situations, and helps to identify the author’s purpose.

Question: What is the role of Rhetorical Reading?

Response:

The role of Rhetoric Reading is very important to the larger process of being a critical reader. This is trying to teachers readers how to develop a well reading habit so that way they will be able to understand the author's intent of whatever article that was written. It is deeply crucial to understand the writer's message because when understanding, we can interpret and evaluate much better. Speaking more general is beneficial in rhetoric reading, building representation in text, and discourse context within text functions. Students must be able to construct elaborate representations of meaning, and they must have strategies like these to do so.