SQR 4- Erika & Vivy

Vivyanne Medina & Erika Carrizales
            English 1301.158

Trang Phan

Sept. 14, 2010

Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning

Christina has and Linda Flower. “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning.” College Composition and communication, Vol. 39m No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 167-183

Summary:

Rhetorical reading strategies consist trying to make sense of the text just read. It is also a think- aloud procedure to show how reading is both constructive and rhetorical. It is helpful to imagine what readers think about as their going through text. Which are made above many nodes of information? Readers and writers usually try to include information that would give you visual images or expressed emotions, through specific words. They usually add their own perspective to the understanding of the meaning of the text. The teachers as co-readers can teach students how to use their imagination in order to make their text better for the readers. Some students are very good readers but not very good writers. What many of our students need to do is to construct representation of conduct of structure and of conventional features. As for experienced readers, they draw more on the wider rhetorical situation (the author’s purpose, context, and audience) to deconstruct the text, while freshman readers primarily focus on the specific context of the text. The mean proportions of strategies used are content, feature, and rhetorical strategies. Which make a very significant difference in the way we read? These constructive ways of reading would give you better knowledge of what you’re reading and also what you’re writing.

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

(a)  “Rhetorical strategies take a step beyond the text itself.” (p.176) 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 careful 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 we use it to.

(b)  We do use this method when we don’t get a clear idea of what we are reading; we go back and reread it so we can get a better understanding if 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.