1)I started this reading like if it was any other reading I had to read starting from the title and trying to understand every paragraph as I continued through the article. I would start by reading the title of the article to see what the author is trying to get at, then I would read the article and not understand most of it but the second time I would read every paragraph and understand what I missed the first time and I read it a third time just incase I missed anything.
2)To me Brandt is trying to tell us that reading is a way we try to understand and summarize what the other person is trying to tell us in their own words on paper.Writing can be anything like informotive or just a poem. Writing can be started from a memory to just the way you feel.
3)To me "self-sponsored" writing means that they were motivated to write about them self like a biograph for example.
4)People tended to use reading to remember the feeling they had at that moment they wrote about.
5)Some people tend to write about their feelings and they also seem to read to remember how they felt at that time.In this article to me reading is just a way to remember somthing or a feeling and writing is another way to put down your feelings for you to remember or for someone else to experience. To me it supports how I think about reading and writing because I think that writing is another way to put down and express your feelings and reading is a way to understand and experience it to.
Hey Aaron!
ReplyDelete2.) I like that you describe very real differences between reading and writing, and even get at the reasons behind why we do them. Brandt definitely touches on these “Reasons behind why” we read and write, but she also takes note of when/where and how it happens. There are a number of places within the excerpt where she describes these differences, lets focus in on one:
People's descriptions of the settings of childhood and adolescent writing —a hospital bed, the
front steps of a house, and, in other cases, a garage, a tree house, and a highway
overpass—were degraded versions of domesticity, in marked contrast to the memories
of pillowed, well-lit family reading circles described in so many of the interviews.
How might we describe the differences between these places where reading and writing happen? Does where reading and where writing happen tell us anything about how we might view or imagine these two activities?