Rhetorical Awareness

Q1. You are probably aware of the importance of Rhetorical reading thus far. I would like to know how you would evaluate your use of rhetorical reading strategies and whether you will have any plans to improve your rhetorical skills and what are the plans?
I would use rhetorical reading strategies in the way that I would try to read beyond the text itself. I would try to see the many ways in what text is trying to say, in all the different ways I can. That’s my plan so far in rhetorical reading strategies I will try to improve my reading habits as best as I can.
Q2. You are also expected to have a good understanding about Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose and the difference between them lies in the use of Rhetorical Strategies. I would like to know how you would differentiate the use of rhetorical strategies in writing (from reading as above) and what will be your plans to improve your rhetorical strategies in writing.

The difference between Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose is that Writer-Based is when you write just to write and do not really taken in consideration to your audience. Reader-Based Prose is when the writer actually takes their audience in mind. They try to make their paper as easy for their audience to understand. I think I am going to have a better understanding in writer and reader based prose because I now know what they mean. Hopefully I have understood how to read rhetorically in the papers, know that I know what it is as well. My plan to read rhetorically is to stop using my ways in reading and actually taking in consideration to read rhetorically.

Assignment 1

My concerns about SQR are one of two, first concern is how to start the summary. Most of my summaries start with “this summary was about…” I think that’s kind of basic and sometimes I write more than those 200 words, I really need to keep it sweet and short. And my second concern is how to stop writing in a response. When I really understand the question and it’s time to write a response sometimes I write more than I should. I elaborate way to much it’s not even funny.

          I would like the group to consider when reading my SQR is to be very honest with my paper, sometimes because of work I know I could of done a better job but I sometimes get a “that’s good, I like it” comment when I know I had mistakes and it could have been improved. I would like for them to respond or evaluate with what their really thinking, try to be honest but to a way that you would come off as trying to help not mean.  

          When it came to evaluating my peers’ papers I tried to help them the most I could. I tried to give my point of view, my best of understanding of their paper. Somewhere honestly good, they had their SQR flowing very well but to the once I might not understand one or two things I wrote it in the comments section in a helpful way. That’s what I would like on my papers evaluation.

          On some comments I can honestly say that the comments that I got really helped me. But to be honest the comments that really helped me were like one or two out of the five or six questions. I think when it came to me reading one of my peers paper, what really helped me was being in groups. When one of us read it out loud and didn’t understand a sentence or something like that we had someone there to reread it and sometimes it came out differently once someone else read it. That really helped. To hear it from someone else’s way of reading it really helped me and from that we could make an honest comment or tried.