1.well how I usually approach reading not just this one but all my readings it is I read a paragraph, I just not read it but I meditate over trying to find out what is the author trying to tell me. I underline words that I don't fully understand I looked them up and then go back to reading.
2.sometimes when you read something with sophisticated text you might interpret it in the wrong way. So what we have to do is actually analyze it and look at it in a different way, maybe the text has a different meaning than what you think. so you got a look at that text into more sophisticated way so you can get multifaceted meanings. and not just interpret every word literally
3.I think that the word discourse in that paragraph is referring to a specific group of people, for example when he said “understood not only as content and
information, but also as the result of someone’s intentions, as part of a larger
discourse world" its referring to a reaction that someone in a specific discourse community will have by reading what we wrote.
4.rhetorical or reading it's a strategy. When you read rhetorically you just don't read every word and understand it and then go the the next. You read the word, you analyze it you break it down into more easy understandable way and be able to construct meaning through the text.
5.many people do this mistake, you might ask him what does this word mean, and set up taught you the meaning of that word they give you an example or they give you a synonym of that word. Same goes with what this question is asking. You are able to understand every word that you read yet your not able to analyze it summarizes it a you would not get the full meaning by just understanding every word.
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ReplyDeleteGood job Edgar, I like that you have become a part of the conversation! Reading your answers to these questions, I get the sense that you have a very good understanding of what Haas and Flower are talking about, and that you are comfortable negotiating between your own ideas, those you've worked with in your 1301 course and our 1310 course!
ReplyDeleteOne of the greatest problems we often hit when we finally become apart of the conversation, however, is assuming everyone else is in on it too! D: Remember this as you move into new courses, and ultimately becomes a part of various diffrent conversations:
Never assume your audience gets it!
LEt's take your last and final Q here! The question asked you to invesitage the significance of the Quote: how to analyze a text: “What [students] often fail to do is to move beyond content and convention and construct representations of texts as purposeful actions, arising from contexts, and with intended effects.”
You are absolutely right when you note that students simply read to repeat information and they don't 'analyze' it to get the full meaning. But are you assuming, I, your reading, already know what it means to 'get the full meaning'? Are you assuming that I know how we construct meaning? NEVER ASSUME! >8D
Let's return to the quote, how would they need to analyze it? Why is it important to understand that 'good reading' is to 'construct representations of texts as purposeful actions, arising from contexts, and with intended effects.'? If your not looking for face-value information, just the meaning of the words, then what is it you are looking for? And Finally, how might (or how has) this new understanding of reading changed how you read?