Q&R 2

Down and Wardle present some misconceptions in this article. How do they affect a writer and what are ways to avoid them?

The ways that misconceptions reasonably affect the writer are actually simple. The writer enters the class with a mentality that is yet not prepared for what the course has to offer. Their mentality is set to think that learning is easy, just like high school, yet the individual doesn’t comprehend that learning is by far more complex than what thought of. A simple solution to this misconception is for the individual to change their point of view in learning. They must be able to understand that learning is a complex thread that leads to challenging what you all ready know. They must be prepared to re-learn what they know and be able to expand about it. The individual must be prepared for the unprepared.

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.