Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Why is rhetorical reading complex?
In my point of view, rhetorical reading is complex because of all the ideas and all the questions that the reader must ask ourselves. On a table (article Haas and Flower), listing students and experienced readers, rhetorical reading has one of the smallest percentages. I suppose the reason for the small percentages would have to be because most students just base themselves on the simplest way to finish an assignment. On the other hand, rhetorical readers ask themselves questions pertaining to the reading. They make annotations, they re-read, they MAKE sure that what they are doing is going to be the best that they can do. The entire concept that rhetorical readers do is based on so many rules that are so easy to mislead. That is why I believe that rhetorical reading is complex.
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good article but you could put some quotes about what H&F said. just to safely back up on why you think rhetorical reading is complex, explain what it is
ReplyDeleteI agree, we try to read just to finish reading. Rhetorical reading requires us to make reading a full mental process, not just words on a paper. I think if you can support the complexity of rhetorical reading with some text from the article, you would have a stronger point.
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