Monday, October 11, 2010

Linda Fower and Peter Elbow... Questions:)

1.       Linda Flower stresses the importance of audience awareness in composing while Elbow concludes that the question/issue with audience awareness is when. How would you explain the connections between these two points of view?

Linda Flower mainly stresses because she believe we should be very aware of the audience on behalf our writing, which she always has in mind the audience. While on the other hand Elbow briefly expresses the opposite which is that we should not worry much on audience awareness. He thinks that there is periods of time that we let the audience know when they should not. Which It helps the writer not take much into consideration to what the readers are going to comment on their writing. So, the writers should just express themselves out without stress on them nor pressure, but when they feel that their paper is or sound good, that is when they should take in mind the audience.  

2.       In general, what have you learned from Linda Flower’s and Peter Elbow’s article as a writer and as a reader?
 While reading the article of Linda Flowers and Peters Elbows, I can honestly say that I learned how and when to use audience awareness, writer-base prose and reader-based prose. When these skills come to the pictures there are certain way to use them.  I really think that this article has a good point but there was a little bit of confusion, but either way I understood. As I have been a reader I believe that writing is easy especially when readers read and revise which make the writer check their errors.

Monday, October 4, 2010

"Rhetorical Awareness"

Q1. I highly find Rhetorical reading as an important use for readers and writers. A strategy I plan to use all my life when reading and writing come to the picture. Rhetorical reading is an easy format to contribute it with my knowledge of reading. I know for a fact that it is going to help me increase my improvement concerning reading with fewer struggles in life. I look forward to increase my rhetorical skills for the fact of me barely learning the correct format in how to use it correctly. My goal with rhetorical reading is to become really good at it an teach it to the beginners because I can sincerely say that I would’ve liked to have tutors on my side.
Q2. I differentiate rhetorical strategies in writing with rhetorical reading in the format that when reading is being used me as the reader tries to get the readers point of view, but sometimes it is hard to understand what the writer is trying to say. As for when I am the writer it is easy for me because I know what my own point of view is, but in the other hand the readers can sometimes have conflicts with my writing. Either because he/she does not get my point of view or because they do not get a sentence, etc. Of my writing. My plans to improve my rhetorical strategies with writing is to try to put myself on the readers shoes so that I can make it clear to them what my point of view is really about, because me as a readers personally have problems trying to figure out a writers point.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Questions

      1.What were your concerns about in an SQR? What would you like the group to consider, respond to, or evaluate on an SQR of yours? My concerns over SQR were that how I was going to come up with a question over the article assigned to me I was confused at the begging when the professor started explaining us over what SQR meant. I honestly thought I was never going to get the hang of how to do this work, but now I can say that I know how to do it. I would like for the group that gets my SQR to be really honest that if they see that its weak to be blunt and just put all the errors that I have made, I prefer to me corrected than to just be making my same mistakes. I would like for them to evaluate it as more honest as they can anything they believe or think is in correct to bring it up so I can learn from my mistakes and errors so that next time I can make the best out of it as well as for me improve my knowledge and learning skills.

            2.How did you see/evaluate the comments you made on your peers papers? Honestly, do you think they were really helpful? (It’s of that you can say no. if that’s the case, please state what made you unable to provide specific comments as you wished. It’s important for me to know how carefully you read your peers papers and how did you work on commenting your friends’ papers)? While I read and revised my peers papers, I saw that the comments I made were as honest as I want for my peers to do to mine, I saw that I was being blunt about them. I believe that I comments I made had to be somewhat helpful, but in the other hand I’m not quite sure if my peers understood of what I was trying to say about their errors they made or I am not sure if I corrected correctly because I know I am not all that good in revising for the fact of me being weak in my reading as well, but all I know Is that I try my best to help my peers and I would like for them to help me as well. So, yes I do believe that the comments I made were helpful, but there is times that when I’m reading what I commented it’s like I don’t even know if my comments will help my peers understand the errors I brought up to their attention, the reason that I think sometimes I have not provided specific comments is because either I didn’t understand my peers writing or because I did not know how to explain my comment. I work hard to comment my peers paper because I would like for them to learn out of their mistakes.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Understanding Composing "SQR"

Sondra Perl talks about Anne experiences as a teacher, she gave examples of all the different things she did. She took a course in which a group of twenty teachers participated in all those twenty teachers were given a topic “My Most Anxious Moment as a Writer.” All of the teachers were to be free of zero distractions and were placed in a very comfortable place. That assignment given to them was to be the hardest, which concentrating on the topic given would be very difficult. Writers have many different way of composing a story; one well known way of a writer to compose is recursiveness. It is well known for writers to use recursive elements to start telling their story. Basic patterns seem to be the same with mainly all writers during composing. This article mainly explains what writing is about, about how people seem to understand writing or figure out a way of how to start and end an article, essay, or novels, as well as finding out different types of ways for It to sound as best as possible. Researchers, and herself question about how writers recursive while they write. However, writers have different ways of writing in some cases, some may go back and read what they wrote and be checking every sentence they write but in the other hand some writers seem to just know it all with no mistakes being done and just continue writing without going back to revise it. “felt sense” is a hard identity, which means that the writer just expresses all its feelings or emotions and just lets it all out on a piece of paper. A writer should always be focused on what he/she is writing so that the reader can finish of his/her story.