Romero In-Class 1

Discussion

Adrianna Romero

3/23/2011

1. “Reading Like a Writer” of RLW is similar to way I read for other English classes but it is extremely different to the kind of reading I do for my political science and psychology classes. For instance, as part of the curriculum for my English classes, I had to rhetorically analyze several poems and sort story. By doing so, I would identify the rhetorical strategies the author used and what they effect of them was on the reader. On the other hand, for a psychology class, I read plenty of medical journals in which the style of the author is not as important as the content. I read these journals to gather information and don’t pay much attention to the structure, or techniques used in the writing.

2. In my writing, I often use parallel sentences to group several things or ideas together. Readers can also identify my writing by the use of irony or sarcastic tone. When I write a piece that is meant to be read out loud, like a speech for example, I use plenty of short stories or dramatic examples.

3. I noticed that the introduction in this essay is fairly long. A lot of the details presented in this short story do not much to do with the content of the rest of the essay, which is about reading like a writer. For example, the lack of security knowledge of the author has nothing to do with his reading skills. However, these details do help me remember the point of the essay and how the author came to learn to read like a writer. I might try using this in which I describe something that I learned, or something related to me.

4. Before you begin reading an essay there are a few ways you can learn more about the content. You can begin by asking yourself questions like why did the author write this? Who was the intended audience? And how credible is the author when is comes to this topic? Asking these questions will provide a batter background to the content of the essay.