Reading Strategies

I agree with the statement the book implies by reading, "Different texts require different kinds of efforts. Some texts can be read fairly quickly". There are so many strategies to reading. There are many different ways to read strategically, like sometimes when i read these assigned writings...I skim, other times I focus on my reading and really try to understand what I am reading.
It talks about Considering the Rhetorical Situation which talks about the purpose, audience, genre, stance and media design when reading. Another thing I really liked while i was reading was learning about annotating. When editing someone, or my own paper, I always use annotating. I think it is very helpful to use this when you are reading.
Next in the reading we get to learn about outlining!! What it says, what it does and summarizing; are all steps in the process of outlining.
Analyzing the argument. This part of the reading I found very helpful and interesting since we are doing an analyzing assignment in class. All in all the reading had many helpful points that many of use will hopefully use in our assignment coming up! laterrrr

analyzing texts

This reading was actually pretty long, but had some interesting points. In chapter 7 it talks about the many ways we analyze writings or texts. The way we analyze anything that we read, puts a whole new spin on the writing. Many people have such different views on the way they analyze readings. Something we read and have a very strong opinon against, could be EXACTLY the thoughts of someone else. Analyzing can be very time consuming. Depending on how deep your willing to go and how much time you are wanting to spend on writings or readings, can determine your analyzation of the writing.

Editing and Proofreading

It's imperative to edit and proofread.
No story, book or anything get published without the process of editing and proofreading. I thought the reading was really helpful. I never thought about editing sentences before and when I read that it really made a lot of sense. I think next time I write a paper I'm gonna go through sentence by sentence making sure it flows and it is the way I want it to turn out.
I also like the idea of proofreading every paragraph. Making sure each paragraph has a topic sentence and that the body of the paragraph goes with the topic sentence. I liked today's reading because it was short, sweet and to the point!

Assessing the writing that you do for yourself is a big no no! when your writing in a journal or for pleasure there is really no need to pick it apart and evaluate all the details. Now when you are writing a piece that is for others then there is a need for some assessing. The reading says... "We rarely get to explain to readers why we did what we did and what it means". Which is the case 99% of the time. Like, if what you wrote reached thousands of people across the world, your not gonna be there to explain to every person everything that was written about. So there is this great need for your writing to be very specific and make sure you convey exactly what you want the reader to feel and think. The next part of the reading goes into more details about how we can check ourselves, is our thesis clear, how does the beginning focus on attention on your main point etc.? The second part of the reading focuses on the response of your writing. How you can handle the response, revising the text and rewriting. Sometimes when you get feedback on your writing it can be offensive or even hurt your feelings...but you can not take it personally. The reading had a lot of helpful ways to rewrite. This time the reading wasn't so boring. It actually gave me a lot of ideas that i had not thought of before. Well that's all I've got. peaceee

Narrative and Ideas

Well...the reading took me a long time to get through all of the stories.
All the narrative stories had similarities. When you finished the short stories you knew their significance and stance. They all had captivating details and emotion behind their stories. Even though it took me a while to read them all, it really wasn't that boring. I found that the stories kept my attention and shed light on how a narrative should be written.
"All good writing revolves around ideas". That is so true! But after reading ways to generate ideas i found some that i know i will definitely never use. Clustering, for example, looks just plain confusing. Questioning and letter writing, to me, don't seem like a ways that would be beneficial to me. And even though hose ways don't appeal to me, there were other ways that DID attract me! Listing, outlining, and discovery drafting all seemed like ways that would work for me. Well...I'm out of things to talk about!!

How to: Be a good writer ;]

The very first sentence of Chapter One really got me interested in what I was about to read...which was slowly crushed by the boring article by Paul Krugman. Not to worry though, the chapters dignity was recovered in the end. "Identify your Purpose", in that section of the reading the author talks about when we are writing we need to decide on why we are writing what we're writing! I think that is so important. Take for example this simple writing assignment, I can bet that more than half of the class groans about having to write a few paragraphs on some boring articles that they HAVE to read...I take the opportunity and identify a purpose for the writing and hopefully make it interesting for others and especially for myself.
The rest of the reading goes on to talk about how you need to be hyper aware of your audience and how the are going to receive your writing. Another thing that needs to be considered is the type of genre you choose to write, which ties into the audience factor as well. Stance, media, design, genre and identifying your purpose are all a big part of making your writing reflect you.
Okay, I'm not gonna lie, the next part of our reading didn't really hold my attention for that long. I ended up skimming through most of the stories. Though, in the end i did soak up a few key points. Phrases like; A well-told story, vivid Details and choosing a topic caught my eye. Wrapping up with topics like drafts and proof reading we come to the end of our reading! Till next blog...