Reading Games Summary: In the essay of “Reading Games” by Karen Rosenberg she focuses a lot on talking about how to pick up the important topics in the readings. She explained how it was hard for her through her undergraduate to focus on scholarly reading, but by graduate school she began to love them because she gained insight to make reading more productive. Conversation is key when talking about scholarly work.
Chapter 1 Intro Summary: This section talks a lot about the misconceptions that people have about writing. It also talks about how there are many constructs that we encounter, such as plagiarism and error, but not all constructs are negative.
Kantz Summary: Throughout this part it talks about how there is more to writing and reading then just getting the information, we are interacting with it as well. In Kantz’s article she writes about students who while doing their essays make it to be more creative then when you just state all the facts from previous history books.
Rhetoric/rhetorical means: rhetoric/ rhetorical means to me when you think of a rhetorical question. You are thinking of how to interpret what someone just said. Rhetoric has to deal with reading academic articles because rhetoric is typically used for communication between the speakers and the writers to get things done. When you are reading academic articles you need to be conveying the message that the writer is telling you.
WAW 1-3,6: 1. Kantz contends that the facts, opinions, and arguments are not always untrue. It’s if you either agree or disagree with it.
2. Students do not know that not all the texts are true. We often assume that everything we read is right when it could be false. We don’t think that it is just opinions, but we feel it is always facts. I feel that this is correct because I know that when I read, I automatically assume that it is real. I feel I understand better, but I am sure I will sometimes still automatically believe it to be true.
3. Yes, I thought it taught me more because now I will not just focus on the facts, but know that they may not always be true but may be an opinion.
6. I think Kantz’s ideas will change my approach to doing research and writing with resources because it will change my outlook when I do a research paper.
MM: Kantz is trying to analyze the constructs of rhetoric because of the persuasive speech. I also think another construct would be plagiarism when she talks about how when you cite a paper if it is not the actual fact.
Topic Idea for Paper 1: The idea of error; grammatical and mechanical mistakes in text. (How does text messaging, ect. affect how we write)
I like your answer to QD 2 because you said that as students we assume that everything that we read in text books are true.
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