“Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” by Karen Rosenberg
“Even though it may seem like a solitary, isolated activity, when you read a scholarly work, you are participating in a conversation.”
“Even though it may seem like a solitary, isolated activity, when you read a scholarly work, you are participating in a conversation.”
I thought this quote was very interesting because it puts reading in a perspective that I’ve never really heard before. It says that reading is like a conversation which in my eyes I never looked at it that way. I just thought it was just you reading what the author had to say without getting any feedback about your thoughts. However, in the article they talk about how the author uses common issues and problems that everyone could face to relate with their readers and that these issues and problems should be further discussed, say with classmates or teachers. The writing provides you with an outlook on an issue or problem and it is your job to take what the writer says and develop your own perspective by discussing it with others. The articles also made a big emphasis on ways to read more academically difficult text. The author explained how splitting the reading into parts in order to break it down so it is better understood. For example, the author stresses the importance on establishing who the desired audience is, as well as taking a closer look at the title to give you an idea of how to read the writing, and lastly establishing the main argument or idea of the story. This quote best explains the ideas in this reading.
“Instead of passively reading the text from start to finish, my suggestions encourage you to pull the reading into its constituent parts—the abstract, the introduction, the section headings, conclusion, etc.—and read them unevenly and out of order to look for the holy grail of the main argument (Bunn 219).”
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ReplyDeletelooks like we did the same readings and had a lot of the same ideas about them.
I agree with your thoughts about re reading articles and reading critically
I like that you included the quote about reading as a conversation. This is the way in which I typically read, however, I have never heard it talked about by someone else as a reading technique. When reading a text, especially academic articles/essays, I often find myself passionately agreeing/disagreeing with points made by the author. This article made me think objectively about the way I read and I think it will enhance the benefit of reading in this way.
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ReplyDeleteYou picked the same part of the article out for reading academic articles, breaking them down into different parts and reading them out of order. Thats how I always do it. All though as I stated in my blog, i think it is procrastination when i do it because im avoiding reading the actual content. hahaha