Madelyn Diaz ENC 1101 11:30-12:20 0045 Summary Flower, Linda, and Cristina Haas.

"Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning." Writing about Writing. Ed. Elizabeth Wardle and Douglas Downs. St. Martins: Bedforf, 2011. 122-137. Analysis August 24, 2012

Through this article, Haas and Flower wanted to emphasize the importance of understanding how much students read rhetorically so we know how to approach different teaching Researchers Haas and techniques to help students Flower, set out to discover the become like the more experienced process we go through while readers. The observational trying to decipher a difficult piece experiment that the two of literature. They conducted an conducted was a form of logos as experiment that would compare a way to prove the fact that less how average college students, experienced readers today, dont above average college students, pay enough attention to rhetorical and experienced readers interpret information in texts. The authors texts while reading. They did this goal was to express the by asking the volunteers to read differences in students and more an article, and 8 times throughout experienced readers to show how the article, they would be asked to reading more in depth, and paying explain how do you interpret the attention to facts beyond just text now? By the end of this trying to understand the content process, the differences in all of can greatly improve your the types of readers were evident. understanding of the reading. Haas and Flower compared the Although, it seems simple to say readers by their ability to identify that the less experienced reader 2 claims, one that was explicit in should just try to read more the text, and another one that was carefully, I think even the authors not. All of the experienced readers are unsure on how to tackle the were able to identify both claims problem with these types of while student readers were only readers. It is not clear on how to able to identify the claim that was address these readers and teach explicit in the text. them to read a certain way to get In the experiment, Haas them like the more experienced and Flower recorded that only 1% readers. However, this experiment of students used Rhetorical was a good step in trying to strategies to read, compared to understand the process students experienced readers at 13%. go through while reading and also Concluding the fact that students to help teachers manipulate their

are content with just looking for information that tells us the main idea of the text rather than actual rhetorical information.

teaching styles to help cater students in reading more rhetorically.