Q&R2

Question: What are the strategies for constructing meaning?

Answer:
To the majority of the people is very difficult to read. Especially to the people that do not like the subject they are reading on, but read is a very important topic in life because that will make you grow and be more knowledgeable. Almost all of the smartest people in the world got all that intelligence from readings. Read should be a habit for all people. Between all the things we can talk about this topic, there are 3 essential strategies that the teachers pretend we use: content strategies, function/feature strategies and rhetorical strategies.
We are going to start talking about the content strategies, and it is basically comments concerned with content or topic information, “what the text is about” (page 177, Hass and Linda Flower). The reader may be questioning, interpreting, or summing content, paraphrasing what the text “is about” or “is saying.” The goal in using content strategies seems to be getting information from the text.
Function/feature strategies were used to refer to conventional, generic functions of texts, or conventional features of discourse. These strategies seemed closely tied to the text: readers frequently named text parts, pointing to specific words, sentences, or larger sections of text. While content strategies seemed to be used to explain what the text was “saying,” function/feature strategies were often used to name what the text was “doing.” The use of these strategies suggests that readers are constructing spatial, functional, or relational structures for the text.
Rhetorical strategies are concerned with constructing a rhetorical situation for the text, trying to account for author’s purpose, context, and effect on the audience. In rhetorical reading strategies readers use cues in the text, and their own knowledge of discourse situations, to recreate or infer the rhetorical situation of the text they are reading. Rhetorical reading appears to be an “extra” strategy which some readers used and others did not. It is useful to see rhetorical reading not as a separate and different strategy but as a progressive enlargement of the constructed meaning of a text.
The conclusion without too many words could be the following: content strategies works with the meaning of the reading and the common question that is made in this strategy is “what the text is about?”; the function/feature strategy works with the meaning of the specific part of the reading and the common question that can be made in this strategy is “what the text was doing?”; and at last but not least, we have the rhetorical strategies that is more about what you fell of the reading, and what is the author purpose of writing that, the way you interpret the reading.