SQR 4

Daniel Garcia
Ricardo Salinas
ENG 1320/1301.158
Instructor: Trang Phan
Christina Haas and Linda Flower.” College Composition and Communication”, Vol.39, No.2 (May, 1988), pp. 167-183
Summary
Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning
This article is telling us the different strategies that students and experienced writers use, because when a student reads and article and has to do an essay, not everyone is going to use the same strategy to make a meaning for their essay. They did an study making a group of experienced writers and students writers to see what strategies they use and how they make a meaning for their text.
Experienced writers see a text not only as a content, they see it also as a result of someone who is expressing what he is thinking and as a study, they go beyond content and create a multi-dimensional representation, and they put they’re own experience and knowledge to the text that they are doing, they using what is called rhetorical strategy.
Student writers they usually what they do is construct representation of the content, they don’t go beyond the text, they don’t build rhetorical representation of the text, they just extract information and put they’re own words of what they rode and they are happy with that work they have done, and almost all the times the strategy that they use the content strategy, the main idea for the strategy is just putting what you understand about the text.
Question:
What does it mean to have “rhetorical” reading strategies? Do you already practice this method of reading?
Response:
Rhetorical reading strategies involves the careful analysis of a text, identifying its
main claims, and actively responding to it with your own ideas and arguments, that means when you go beyond about the writer’s main point, when you read between the lines you get what the writer is talking about. They are questions that you ask yourself to go beyond the text.
We often practice this strategy, but unconsciously when the topic is from our interest we apply this method to enrich our knowledge. When the topic is not of our interest we don’t usually do it because we don’t pay attention to it, we don’t keep focus on the main point of the writers