Reading Response: Curious Writer

Being able to look at things from a different perspective may help a student have a broader view of what they are reading. Conversation incites thought that goes beyond the text, encouraging a social environment that is educational. As Graff says on page 45, “The moral I draw from this experience is that our ability to read well depends more than we think on our ability to talk well about what we read. “ One thing to keep in mind is that these discussions should also not be led by any sort of literary formula; this would also confine the reader’s

In Christina Haas and Linda Flower’s article “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning”, they point out, and break down, the three reading strategies that are used by students when reading a passage, or paper. An experiment was constructed to show what each of these strategies are like while being used and what the reader may ask, or get out of, a certain excerpt.

In "Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning," Christina Haas and Linda Flowers suggest that readers have issues using rhetorical reading strategies and must be instructed to find rhetoric in text in order to do so. Haas and Flowers reference a study where several students ranging from freshmen to undergrads were asked to read an article and describe the authors intentions at several points throughout the article. Haas and Flowers noted that younger, less experienced students had a harder time connecting points and surmised the text; where older and more experienced students connected each point of the article, and gave their interpretations of the text.

Graff and Birkenstein argue in chapter 14 that instead of asking, "What is the author trying to say?" ask students to provoke discussions by asking questions such as "What is motivating the writer's arugment?" in order to better approach reading. Because of this, discussions tended to be "far livelier" and helped students identify a response to an argument. When we are not able to find what the writer is responding to, we have to infer with clues the writer provides in their text. This is important because usually a writer assumes that a reader is familiar with what they are trying to say. So when we try to figure out what is motivating these writers, we have to ask ourselves if the author is responding to an argument. Doing this can help us

I also look forward to improving my academic reading skills. I currently dislike reading academic readings as I find them incredibly boring and time consuming. I know they are for my own good, but if it is assigned for a class that isn’t directly related to my career aspirations, I often don’t read them, but rather use that time to read something that is essential for my career. As I move forward, I wish to be more like the character Seth in Haas and Flowers’ Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning. Seth is a rhetorical reader who searches for the deeper meanings within academic readings all while connecting prior reading experience to the text he is currently reading. In assignment 3 we were required to create a metaphor

According to Seyler, after evaluate and research, readers are able to judge whether the work is adequately developed and its purpose achieved. The research response acts as a learning part for readers about the topic. To illustrate this, Seyler does a full analysis, evaluation and research on “The Gettysburg Address” written by Abraham Lincoln. Reading passively will only help readers to an extent. However, “active reading” readers are better at constructing meanings to get the message. Seyler provides a guidelines for active reading. Once readers go through the steps, they will realize that active reading is a part to writing a good

In Dwight MacDonald’s Reading and Though, he disagrees with Henry Luce’s Idea of functional curiosity. Luce coined the term “functional curiosity,” meaning “the kind of searching, hungry interest in what is happening everywhere.” MacDonald’s opinion of functional curiosity is that it only encourages practice in reading rather than giving beneficial information. He considers today’s literature as flimsy and overwhelming. MacDonald assumes that all reading done in today’s society is “shallow thinking.” I agree with MacDonald that there is a great amount of mediocre literature floating around, but he does not take into account the technological advancements, the lifestyles of people today, and students.

With rapid changes in the society and scientific advancement of human race over the decades, the necessity and importance of reading has increased remarkably. It has become a pivotal skill a person should learn to be successful. However, the cultivation of reading as a hobby is not a business that can be undertaken in a day or swiftly improvised by a mere command of the will. As far as I am concerned, the growth of mental interests for reading is a long process, but that is worthwhile because reading has been a vital aid to my emotional and spiritual growth.

McCandless’s story of going out into the wild and believing in what a book says proves Millers point about how most readers surround themselves with books that reinforce their own beliefs and in this case McCandless ended up passing away. Miller says “McCandless stands as evidence that there continue to be real readers who invest the activities of reading and writing with great significance” (443). If McCandless would have read more he might have learned the toxicity of these seeds before eating them. This is one of many of Millers ways of questioning literature. Miller ends the paper with a call to action directed towards teachers of first year English classes. “ If there is to be lasting hope for the future of higher education, that hope can only be generated by confronting our desolate world and its threatening, urgent realities. The only way out is through” (457)

Do you love reading or do you hate it? Is it something that excites or causes your eyelids to slowly droop down until you see nothing but black? Is there a difference between reading Facebook or something on a website compared to those things with many tree killing pages? Do we as human beings long to make ourselves smarter? Certainly there are a lot of questions that should be answered by each individual who reads through this essay but at the core of our intelligence lies the ability to understand and reason. We do this through filling our minds with new information through the act of reading.

I guest then I am not going to be to psyched about reading on that topic or article. So overall, I'd can have said that reading is important to me and is a fun aspect of school going to school a learn I can said that for me because of the sense of accomplishment I feel when I finish a reading article like Girl by Jamaica Kincaid. so, to me reading is probably one of the most beneficial and important feasible activities that a human can do. I so believing that the first main reason reading I believe that reading is so beneficial in our specially in my live because that an article Girl reading that is relaxation to my mind and soul also bring me so much memories and I feel that’s, something that does not seem to happen often in my lives. Even if I have a stressful day, a book can easily distract me from own problems. Reading important to me now because has ability to calm me down. and dispense peace in me knows that a person who reads will be successful and a person, who doesn’t will either not do so well than others or eventually fail in life. If I want to be known as a profound

Read actively by taking notes using a piece of paper or graphic organizer folded in half. In column 1, students cite specific information from the text along with an explanation in their own words. In column 2, students include their feelings about the text, or any “aha” moments. This strategy is beneficial to individual student, as well as in pairs in order to reflect on metacognition processes (Ellery and Rosenboom).

It is the easiest and most effective way to acquire new information, radical ideas, useful concepts, entertaining stories, and noteworthy opinions. We can recall that Sir Francis Bacon, in his essay “Of Studies”, wrote something similar when he said that, “Reading maketh a full man,” By that he meant reading gives us a solid foundation in a world where one can only advance himself socially and economically when he has a wealth of knowledge and information at his disposal.

(Carrell, 1987) “Reading is a sophisticated activity, which includes psychological aspects. It is an interactive process between a reader and text.”

A student that is able to analyze key information from material will be able to gain a better understanding of it and will be easier to remember. Questioning main concepts that are present within the reading help to break down the significant material into easier to remember information. Asking questions such as “What is the main idea the material is trying to portray?” can help to initiate the thinking process that the reader needs to use when analyzing a piece of reading (2016). This helps the reader to get a main idea of the topic and analyze the material they are reading, triggering an easier response when a student comes across the subject on a test. A student that tries to interpret the way the writer thinks is able to grasp the style and ideas that the writer is showing within a text. A similar question that can be asked is “What