SQR #4

Salvador Chavez and Shang Wang SQR #4
ENG. 1320/ 1301. 161
Trang Phan
Sep. 23, 2010
“Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of the Meaning”
Rhetorical Reading only means to make sense of a writing, in the article, the author was trying to compare and contrast the differences of Rhetorical reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning made between experience reader and freshmen students.
The problem of students with critical reading of difficult text is less the representation they are constructing than those they fail to construct, sophisticated test require more sophisticated meaning.
Experience adult readers make use of these strategies often, not only to predict and interpreted writings but also to solve problems in comprehension, they know how to analyze beyond the text founding the meaning, indentifying claims faster and create a hypothesis about the authors purpose and intended audience.
Both students and experience readers spend a large amount of their effort using content strategies and building a representation of content seems to be very important for all of the readers we studied but rhetorical readers seemed to recognize and assimilate more facts and claims into their reading of the text sooner. This act of building a rich representation of the text—larger than words on the page within a text function is the kind of constructive reading teacher’s desire students to do.
Question:
What is the difference between constructive process and receptive process?
Answer:
Is when you build the information and braking down the main point for better understanding it is your job to find the information analyzes it and understand it. Receptive process is when the information is given to you and just translated into your own word to assimilate it.