Rhetorical Reading Strategies

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Each and every person conceptualizes reading in a different way. In their article “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” Christina Haas and Linda Flower examine the different ways readers, mainly students, read a text and break it down for post read analysis. They believe that every student finds different meaning in every text they read as they show when they state, “There is a growing consensus in our field that reading should be thought of as a constructive rather than as a receptive process: that “meaning” does not exist in a text but in readers and the representations they build” (167). This shows that they do not share the same ideas about reading that many K-12 institutions throughout the united states do considering …show more content…
I am going to compare these strategies to the different walks of life. Content reading is like childhood. When one is a young child they do not have to do much thus they do not experience many things. Their view on the entire world is skewed to what they see on a day to day basis and what their parents expose them to. It varies for many children but overall the worldview of a child is nowhere close to what an average adult sees. These children are early on in their life and it is normal for their views to be this way much like the way that new college students read for content. It is not necessarily a bad thing that they read this way, it is just something that will develop with them over …show more content…
Haas and flower state, “Rhetorical strategies take a step beyond the text itself. They are concerned with constructing a rhetorical situation for the text, trying to account for authors purpose, context, and effect on the audience” (176). They are saying that these readers see the entire scope of the text and understand it better by doing so. These high-level readers tend to be very experienced in reading academic texts so often times they are grad school students who have a lot of education and have been exposed to these college level academic texts for a long time. They also use all three of the reading strategies simultaneously to get the most out of their time reading as

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