1. “Reading Like a Writer” is similar to the reading that I did last quarter in my writing class. My teacher asked us to focus on the audience and the purpose of the author when we were reading. Most of the reading that I did for that course was online articles which I did not print out. I have not done a lot of writing while reading in previous classes.
2. I try to connect myself to my audience and try to include the audience in my argument. By using things that I have in common with my audience I try to relate to them to open them up to my argument.
3. The author of this article emphasizes main points by separating them from the rest of the paper. “I came to realize that all writing consists of a series of choices.” This statement is its own paragraph. By doing this he portrays the importance of this realization. The author uses examples very well by using the Obama quote and analyzing the advantages and disadvantages that this quote contains.
4. The genre of the text and its chosen audience are often signals of the context of the piece that can be discovered even before starting to read. The title can introduce the work and give the reader a quick idea of the topic and sometimes the stance that the writer will make.
Hi Josh. Full credit on your first post. In response to your first answer, have you not read textbooks or study guides or foreign language texts, etc.? Those situations would be approrpriate for reflection here.
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