Reading

Rosenberg Summary
In her article, "Reading Games", Karen Rosenberg attempts to focus on the importance of smart reading and picking out the important sections and paying attention to the title, introduction, and conclusion. The more you focus on the main points of the reading, the more you'll understand it. She tells her story about her time in college and allows students to relate to what she has to say so that students learn something. Rosenberg argues that it's important to focus on the main points and the parts of writing that star out rather than the whole thing because it's a faster, more productive way to get the information and knowledge out of the writing that you need.
I enjoyed this passage because I found myself agreeing with everything Rosenberg had to say about daydreaming when reading. I always catch myself accidentally skipping over paragraphs and important information because I let my mind wander. It's nice to have a formula to follow and to learn there are ways you can focus on only the main points.

In The Book Summary
In this section the authors help the readers learn that the reality of writing is much more complicated when we actually pay attention to what the writing is based on. People are raised and taught to think and act a certain way and eventually that's all that they believe in but in reality everyone changes how they think and act, just how the rules of writing change. Kantz talks about the importance of getting a good argument out of the text that students read. She teaches that some students may have to apply basic organizing patterns, such as cause-effect and general to specific to their writing.
I think this section was very good for understanding how different textbooks and other parts of research are compared to what some people believe it to be already, I thought it was interesting to read.

I believe rhetoric means having a thought that can be answered or understood in many ways. Anything can be rhetoric. It has to do with reading academic articles because it describes the language writers use to communicate and finish their writing. Rhetorical is how we view and set up our writing.

1. I think Kantz means that opinions, facts, and arguments are things that are gotten and understood from other people around us and can be changed. They are what people make them to be from what they've learned.
2. Students don't know that a lot of textbooks aren't always true. A lot of them can disagree and students think that the only things they can get from textbooks is what is written, you have to pull away and think about the information in order to understand everything that it is trying to teach you. I feel as if I still don't quote understand how to put my research together and figure out the truth of the topics I may choose but I think sooner or later I will.
3. Yes it taught me new things about being persuasive when writing. I believe using real-life experiences and things that people may relate to. Also, using different source and different views and opinions.
6. Yes I think it will change my approach because now I will not always focus on the "facts" in textbooks but the questions that I may think of when reading and can base my research off of.

Meta Moment
I believe Kantz talks about rhetoric because in persuasive writing it is one thing that many people focus on. I think plagiarism was used but the things may not be real facts, so what would you be citing?

Paper Idea: good writing