Rhetorical Awareness

Q1.    You are probably aware of the importance of Rhetorical reading thus far. I would like to know how you would evaluate your use of rhetorical reading strategies and whether you will have any plans to improve your rhetorical skills and what are the plans?
 =i think that my rhetorical reading skills are good enough for a foreign student and this is my freshman year in the u.s. but i think that i need to improve them as soon as possible because i want to live here in the u.s. and i want to speak and write perfect this language and i want to improve them it is very neccesary to me because it is about my future.





Q2.    You are also expected to have a good understanding about Writer-Based Prose and Reader-Based Prose and the difference between them lies in the use of Rhetorical Strategies. I would like to know how you would differentiate the use of rhetorical strategies in writing (from reading as above) and what will be your plans to improve your rhetorical strategies in writing.
 = the differences between writer-based prose and reader-based prose are a lot because when you write you can fix your mistakes and nobody will know it because you can fix them before you publish your article, but when you are reading you cant fix your mistakes and you need to do other things because everybody will know that you maked a mistake. My plans to improve my rhetorical strategies in writing is to practice a lot. i need to practice a lot to improve them that is the only way to do it, i cant improve my writing skills by reading, i need to write a lot.

Reflection on audience awarness

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?

I think that if you are in front of an audience that you know like your family you will feel more comfortable and you will not matter if you say something wrong as if you are with someone else that you don’t know and it is when because you have to do the issue when you are in front of an audience.

2.    In general, what have you learned from Linda Flower’s and Peter Elbow’s article as a writer and as a reader?

I have learned that it is better to speak in front of people that you know because that will be less embarasing, but I learned too that it is better if you write something and you publish it because you will not know who know about it and if you do a mistake you can correct it before you publish it and if you are speaking you can correct it at all.

HOMEWORK QUESTIONS

Sebastian Salinas Trevino

ENG 1320/1301.161

Trang Phan

09/21/2010

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 about doing an SQR were that I don’t know a lot of English because I am a foreign student and I think I don’t have the enough skills to write English like my other classmates. I think that I am not as bad as I think but this is my freshmen year and I think that I am doing a good paper. My grammar is not as good as the others, but I think that I can express myself better, the problem is that I can’t express my ideas in English and it is kind of difficult to me, but I think that I can do this and with the time I will learn more and I will know more.

I want the group to consider to my way of think not to my grammar. I know that is more difficult to them to understand my words but I think that my words say a lot of thinks and maybe I can express better. I want them to fix my errors because with that I will learn more and in a future it will be more easier to me.

2. How did you see/evaluate the comments you made on your peers’ papers? Honestly, do you think they were really helpful? (It’s ok 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).

I evaluate the comments of my classmates by the meaning of the words. I think it is the most important think in a summary because you have to know what are you talking about to express the others your way of think. I think that the peer response is very helpful and very useful too because when we do a peer response we discuss all the errors of the article and if three people agree with one error it must be an error. It is better because when we do peer response we agree with the good things of the article and when we discuss we will get a point of the article.

When my friends and I do a peer response, first we start to find the errors of grammar, then we try to understand the idea of the article and finally we discuss about it and put a comment of what we think of it. These have been very useful to us and can be useful to others.