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Brenda Carmona

ENG 1320/1301.161

Trang Phan

10/4/10

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Author: Peter Elbow “Closing My Eyes as I Speak: Argument for Ignoring Audience”

Source: College of English, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan., 1987), pp. 50-69

Summary

It is said that while one speaks they close their eyes to ignore the audience and arguments so that they can avoid audience awareness. Peter Elbow belives that an audience is a field of force. He also says “the effect of audience awareness is somewhere between the two extremes: the awareness disturbs or disrupts our writing and thinking without completely blocking it out.” (pp.51-52) Different people may not close their eyes as they speak but at times I catch myself doing that and it helps me block out everything and it makes me think better maybe not for everyone but for me it works. It sometimes becomes an overload when speaking in front of an audience so start by ignoring them and focus on your thinking when done thinking you can turn to the audience. When I feel overloaded is if I hear the audience I lose my focus and don’t know where to begin from.

Question:

Peter Elbow argues that the audience is a field force. What do you understand? Have you experienced it?

Response:

I belive that the audience is a feel of force because an audience can distract you or make you nervous. We can make a statement infront of the audience and they can react in a bad way so you can become afraid or go blank. The audience though is good because they can judge your speech but you may not like what they have to say about it. It is something that one has to deal with when having an audience.

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Brenda Carmona

ENG 1320/1301. 161

Trang Phan

9/28/10

Linda Flower “Writer-Based Prose: A Cognitive Basis for Problems in Writing”, College English, Vol. 41, No. 1(Sep., 1979), pp.19-37

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Writer-Based prose and Reader-Based prose are each a different kind of writing. Writer-Based prose focuses on yourself it is the work of one’s own verbal thought. It is not concerned how the reader understands it but how they better understand it. Their language shifts from one statement to another to express themselves. Writer-Based prose fails to do some Rhetorical Strategies because it doesn’t focus on the audiences understanding but on their own understanding.  Reader-Based focuses on the readers the writer tries to communicate the best way they can with the reader. Their language and structure reflects the purpose of the writer’s thoughts for the reader to better understand. Writer-Based prose can be useful in brainstorming or writing a rough draft and once the person has done that you can revise it with characteristics of the Reader-Based prose. Egocentric nature is known when someone talks only about themselves, lacks the ability to see others points of views or opinions it is not the proper way to go. It is selfish if you know you are doing it and keep doing it on purpose but it isn’t selfish when it comes to your knowledge. 

Question:

How would you identify Writer-Based prose and Reader-Based prose?

Response:

To begin with everyone writes a different way so it can be any of these two kinds of writings. Writer-Based prose is when someone focuses just on themselves and what he/she understands rather than is the audience understands what he/she is writing about. “It is the record and the working of his or her own verbal thought. (pg. 18)” Their language usually shifts from one statement to another to express themselves. Reader-Based prose is when the writer tries to communicate with the reader the best way he/she can. “Reader-Based prose reflects the purpose of the writers thoughts. (pg. 19)”

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Brenda Carmona
ENG 1320/1301. 161
Trang Phan
9/20/10

Christian Haas and Linda Flower "Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of meaning". College Composition and Communication, Vol. 39, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp.167 – 183 National Council of Teachers of English

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Good readers are known as by having large vocabulary, reading quickly, and are able to do well at comprehension tasks. Critical thinking is very important it involves more than just carefully reading or identifying. Strategies for constructing meaning are three-part coding sheme distinguished between content, function/feature, and rhetorical reading strategies. Content strategies has to do with knowing what the text is about or trying to say. Function/feature strategies is dealing with the main points, examples, and introduction. Rhetorical Strategies is taking a step beyond the text. For example what is the authors purpose , the context, and effect on audience. Student readers do not build rhetorical representations of the text. Experienced readers use the rhetorical strategies to help construct content, and vice versa. We must be able to construct and understand the meaning, and must have strategies to do so. Some students were found less successful at using the rhetorical strategies when reading others writing.

Question: (a) What does it mean to have "rhetorical" reading strategies? (b) Do you already practice this method of reading?

Response: (a) "Rhetorical strategies take a step beyond the text itself." What it means is that as a reader we have to think about what we are reading and make connections with our previous knowledge in order to get a better concept of what we are reading. We have to be extremely carsful to what we are reading in order to being able to comprehend the text as better as possible. This concept is mainly used by experienced readers, but sometimes I use it to.
(b) I do use this method when we dont get a clear idea of what we are reading and we can go back and reread it so we can understanding of it. Sometimes when we have to summarize a text or something like that, we have to read and put it into our own words so we can understand it, if not just at least have an idea of what that is talking about.

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Brenda Carmona


ENG 1320/1301. 161

Trang Phan

9/10/10



Nancy Sommers "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writer". National council teachers of English, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1980) pg. 378- 388

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Writing is not a linear process because writing is unpredictable but it can be revised to make the writing better. Speech on the other hand is different it is linear but impossible to be revised because it is said not recorded in writing. Students writers are different from experienced writers in many ways. Student writers look to make their writing fit the meaning and revise on the word and sentence level. Experienced writers look for the meaning through the writing and revise global level with specific attention to the sentence level. Nancy Sommers definition for revision is " a sequence of changes in a composition - changes in which are initiated by cues and occur continually throughout the writing of a work".Brittons belives "that revision is simply the further growth of what is already there, the "preconceived" product". Some good techniques for revision that are used as student writers and experienced writers are reviewing and re-doing, scratching over it and doing it over again, marking out, slashing, and throwing out stuff that doesn't make sense. These are many ways to revise your own paper to make it better.

Question: Why cant writing be compared to speech?

Response: `Writing is is not a linear function because what we write is unpredictable and we can revise it over and over till it is the best out of the other drafts. Speech is different it is linear because we know what is going to be said and is impossible to be revised so because of that a major part of the writing system is being left out. Revision in speech though is an afterthought.

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Brenda Carmona


ENG 1320/1301. 161

Trang Phan

9/9/10



SQR 2: “Peer Response: Teaching Specific Revision Suggestions”

Peer response is someone’s comments on ones writing it is suppose to be helpful but at times is not. There is an organizational technique that is done in groups called PQP (Praise-Question-Polish) it helps students focus and maintain a positive attitude toward commenting ones writing. The three types of categorized responses are vague giving no specific direction for revision, another is general, but useful it its general but gives only some direction for revision and specific which gives specific direction for revision. These responses depend on what kind of comment you give as the reader. The best way to respond though is with a specific comment so it can help the writer revise his/her paper the best way they can. Peer response sessions can take place by class activities, small-group activities, and individual work. These are ways to improve your comments if you do not give specific comments try to so you can help others and others can help you. Helping one another is useful it will allow your writing to become better and interesting for others to read.

Question: What type of response do you refer yourself to?

Response: At this point my comments are general, but useful but I would like to start giving specific comments so I can help the writer the best way I can. Becoming a specific commenter is a good thing and those are the kind of comments I want on my writing paper so I can get the most help I can to make my writing better in any way I possible.

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Brenda Carmona


ENG 1320/1301. 161

Trang Phan

9/2/10

SQR 1: "Understanding Composing"

Summary:

Anne is writing teacher she was given an assignment to tape her thoughts while composing aloud on a topic in a course of research and basic writing. While hearing her composing she notices certain basic patterns not only did she but so did others. Sandra Perl the assistant professor than recognizes that it appears to be recursiveness yet the parts that recur to change from writer to writer and depends on what the topic is. Some elements are having to go back every few phrases, sentence, paragraph or have to read the topic over and over while thinking of key terms. Another element is felt sense it is what you feel or have experienced it is also known as your inner voice. Retrospective Structuring is a feature of the composing process it can be known when something is not what was intended to be said or not getting the point across. We discover something new in our writing so we write something new out of it. Another feature of the composing process is projective structuring when writing what they think others want them to write rather than writing what they want to write. Everyone thinks different so the writing is different.

Question:

The author describes recursiveness as “a forward-moving action that exists by virtue of a backward-moving action". To what do writers move back? What is being repeated?

Response:

The writer may move back to revise their writing and to organize their thoughts. The process of going back and rereading what is already written down keeps being repeated till the end of your writing.