Haas & flower’s article on rhetorical reading gives some enlightening information that although obvious, showcases an aspect in reading and writing in a scholarly form. this information is almost ingrained into normal reading styles, but takes studying in order to master.
I found myself being constantly upraised as I read into this article, because most of the techniques described were rules I learned or picked up in school. I remember building correlations of the content in my head of personal experiences to the current selection I was reading, and I still do. I even built an imaginary character talking to me as I read this, as if I had a person talking to me 1 on 1. I am surprised that this is supposedly the higher form of reading, since I have always tried to truncate such thoughts because I believed my mind was wandering. Not only this, but the section of nodes of information got to me. I could especially relate to this because I learned of it in psychology, where the human brains makes nodes for information to remember later, and this fit so perfectly into what the article was talking about. I still remember some information from early childhood because of these nodes, although most of it is just Dr. Seuss.
My outside source was chosen on the basis that it packed all the information I needed into a concise and readily understandable way. It agreed on most points stated in the article, creating associations, finding more than one meaning, on finding purposes, it was basically the article, but the dummy version. I strongly agree with both sources, using rhetorical strategies will make critical writing a synch for anyone, I know from personal experience that it has for me.
I believe this article has only affirmed what I have already been doing for my school English carrier. I can’t help but remembering my high school English teachers as I read this, it brings back everything they have taught me.
UBC Writers’ Workshop 07-May-2007 The University of British Columbia 9/12/09 http://www.writingcentre.ubc.ca/workshop/tools/rhet1.htm
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Well done. Clearly, you've demonstrated a more concentrated effort to link your comments to concrete, specific experiences.
ReplyDeleteI even thought your outside source selection made a lot of sense too... for isn't that what we do if we're not sure we're getting the full picture, we usually ty and find a different source, whether it be an abridged version or our own version of cliff notes.
Well done.
Keep pushing yourself to be more reflective as we progress to the next reviews.
PS add the time to your blog, please.
50/50