Q&R2

Question: who are the good readers?

Answer: Good readers are not the students that can read 100 miles an hour and summarize what they read in that moment but forget about it the next day or the next week. A vast amount of students suffer from "bad reading habits "especially freshman students who are use to read in a high school level. But why are students not good readers? this is because the majority of bad readers lack interest in what they are reading and the lack reading strategies. Good readers are the students who are able to use any of the three major reading strategies such as content strategies, functional feature strategies and rhetorical strategies. what these strategies basically do is create an alert mind who is determined to question anything he reads for example when reading an essay he might ask questions such as what is the main point ? or I think this is the introduction. students who are good reader "can identify topic sentence, introduction and conclusions, generalizations and supporting details." according to Hass and Flower article rhetorical strategies and the construction of meaning. the article also describes a non-good reader as someone who can interpret any sophisticated text "these students readers seem to concentrate on knowledge, content what the text is about- not taking into account that the text is the product of writer's intentions and is designs to produce an effect on a specific audience. "while good readers understand that both reading and writing are context-rich, situational, constructive acts, and take into consideration that the writer intensions may be bias therefore is able to grasp a better writer perspective and infer his own perspective. In a nut show Hass and Flower answer the question by stating that good students who able to who can read and analyze instead of paraphrase and criticize instead of summarize any given article.