Writing about Writing

I honestly can not really remember the last time I was taught about reading something. I do know however some of the things I have been taught about reading. One of the biggest parts of reading that I have been taught is how to sound out the words when trying a new word. That is probably one of the most important parts of reading, if you know how to do that, you will be successful in being able to teach yourself how to read. I was not necessarily taught how to make meaning out of what I was reading. That is something that is important. In this text, Haas and Flower are saying that it is important to teach the reader to understand the rhetoric in the text. "What are Haas and Flower trying to figure out by doing this research? Why do they want to find it out?" I believe their goal is to figure out how well college students are actually able to read. Their goal for this is to be able to teach other, younger students how to read. This can help the students with their future ...

Welcome to blog number 2... aren't my names just really creative?? I do not think that it could be possible for someone to be in both a rhetor and audience situation. To be an audience, you are observing the rhetoric taking place, you are sitting in the background listening and watching the whole scene play out. When you are in a rhetor situation, you are actively taking part in the situation, you are speaking, motioning, and giving opinions and emotions based on the conversation. I think for both of those to be a part of the same person in the same rhetorical situation would not be possible. When you are a writer, you should be making sure of what you are writing makes sense. For a writer to not know about his/her rhetorical situations would not make for a good text. When you are aware of your rhetorical situation, you might be able to express something in more detail and understand it more fully. To understand your rhetorical situation would be the same as understanding your g...

When I hear about good writers, I often think that they are ones who have gotten all the words and grammar just right. I did not usually think about the technology and situations written by or about, it was always just making the commas and periods right. Often I have looked down on my writing because I knew that I was not the best in the grammar department. I never really thought about how I could be better in other situations. Rhetoric is part of our everyday life. To "escape" rhetoric would be like trying to escape modern-day technology, it is just plain impossible. Rhetoric is deeply ingrained in our lives and society, used through many years and centuries of writing and works of text. Even if you were to escape writing, you have traces of rhetoric in everything else we do, from the choices we make to the way we talk, rhetoric is always there. "Are you surprised to see this guide explain emotions and feelings as central to making knowledge instead of contrary to ...