SQR4 Fernando Miguel & Marco Potrillo 9-22-10

Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning
In this article they go on talking about these different processes and how writers and readers have their own aspects and mind sets that sets experienced and inexperienced apart. They go on talking about Rhetorical reading and how experienced writers use their past and emotional experience to make a topic come to life. And the inexperienced writers like students we were taught different to use strategies, strategies that will get us a picture on what the topic was about to help make the paper meet certain standards. The certain strategies will only help meet standards not ones that we wish to surpass like those of a well experienced writer. This article also goes on to talk about “multiple-representation thesis” which explains a certain change and the process of constructing. This was shown when they experimented on three students to see how they think when they read to see if they understood what they read . In function/feature strategy it talks about readers and how they can pin point the important parts and words or sentences for example "This is the main Point” or “This must be an example” or “I think this is the introduction” while in content strategies it explains what the text was saying but in function/feature were used to name what the text was doing “ here he is contrasting” “ this part seems to be explaining” this is how the reader is relating to the text itself being able to ask and question the text.
Question: What is “Good Reading”?



Response: What is good reading? Didn’t even know there was such a thing but according to the text its how we understand it and how we read critically. Like how now a day we students use bigger vocabulary words, read faster and recalling what we read but that’s not what good reading is all about. It's about comprehending the writing in multiple levels to help us understand the writers intention of the writing and the point he or she is trying to make. And it's not all about forcing your brain to make it read the topic, anybody can do that, but it's about how you can relate to it and try to make it as interesting as possible so you can understand it.