Showing posts with label Mauricio Cisneros. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mauricio Cisneros. Show all posts

Thursday, October 7, 2010

SQR 6

Summary:
This article is mainly about the different ways an audience can help, or damage your reading. For example, sometimes when we are reading in front of an audience, we feel uncomfortable, and insecure. This is when our reading gets damaged also sometimes you try so hard for the audience to be able to understand you, that you start losing your clearness towards the audience. It’s sometimes good to have an audience, if you feel ok with your audience. Sometimes it helps you get an idea of the way you have to talk when reading, and the ideas that you have to present.

Question:
In p.53, the author concludes that "it's often difficult to work out new meaning while thinking about readers". Do you agree with this argument? Please explain.

Response:
In my opinion this is true, because when you are concentrated on who is going to read your writings, you start thinking more about how to satisfy the readers and your writing starts losing its strength and its clearness towards the reader. It's also important for us as writers to take in consideration our readers, because they let us know what type of words to use, and also make us get ideas that can relate to our readers.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Rhetorical Awarness

Response to Q1:
In my opinion, my rhetorical reading strategies are really weak. Sometimes when I finish reading something, I have no idea of what I just read, or I will only remember what the story was mainly about. My plans to improve mi rhetorical reading strategies consists in reading the headings of every paragraph, and also take time after every few lines to break down the text and try to understand it a little better.

Response to Q2
When using rhetorical reading, you look at what the author of the text is trying to inform you about, but you also look at the small but important parts of the writing. When using rhetorical writing, you take in consideration who the audience you’re writing to is going to be, and also you look at how you get your point across so that the reader can understand your writing. My plans for making my writing better consist of taking in consideration who is going to be reading my text, because I never do that.