Erick Gomez, Victoria Hernandez
ENG 1320/1301. 161
Trang Phan
Sep. 22, 2010
Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning
Summary:
Christina Haas and Linda Flower. “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning”. College Composition and Communication, Vol. 39, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 197-183.
In the article “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning”, written by Christina Haas and Linda Flower, one learns that no one is born an excellent written but one can become one. There’s been an argument brought up that reading is being portrayed as “constructive” and that “meaning “is in readers rather than in texts. Yet, reading is also being thought of as a discourse act. If this is true it means that college students should be taught differently how to read texts. If so, “what is good Reading?” how does the average student becomes one? Over the past years reading strategies have been developed in order to become a “good reader”, such as Rhetorical and Construction strategies, but how do they work? “Rhetorical strategies take a step beyond the text itself” meaning that there’s more to what is being said and written; in this case the reader must think about the information he just read. Students that are inexperienced cannot always read between the line and often miss the point of what is being said compared to the experienced read who can. So once again we learn that no one is born a good writer they become one.
Question:
Compare and Contrast Rhetorical Reading Strategies and Construction of Meaning?
Response
Rhetorical Reading Strategies take a more experienced read to recognize the doubled meaning in the text and to understand it fully. Whereas, Construction of Meaning is how one thinks of a texts when it is being read and how it is understood.
Your summary was good informative..your response needs more information. it was to short and need detail
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ReplyDeleteI think the response needs more of facts form the article so you can answer the question.
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