January 9th homework

In her article Reading Games, Rosenberg attempts to tell the audience how rhetorical reading works and how to become a better reader. She argues how people don't understand what they are reading because they don't understand why they have to read what that are reading most of the time.
I thought that Rosenberg's article was very interesting because it taught me different ways to understand a reading that I have not done before. This article probably will be very helpful to me because it has many good methods of getting more interested into your reading and ways of understand what you read that I will use.

In her article Kantz attempts to explain how students are looking at writing as something more complicated than it really is and describe how students can look at writing in a different way. She argues that students don't look at writing in a rhetorical way  because the professor does not explain to them how they should approach the writing and the students just look for all the facts. I enjoyed this article because Kantz had many good points and explained how to go about writing rhetorically very well. The article will definitely be helpful to me because she explains in detail how you should approach writing a paper. This related to my experiences because I always approach writing papers in the same way that Shirly does so I can understand it. I agree with what Kantz is saying in this article because I had similar experiences in writing and agree with how she says students should approach writing.


To me rhetoric means the way someone convinces another person and helps them to understand what they are saying and think about it in the same way.  Academic articles are rhetoric because the author is trying to persuade the reader and teach them about whatever the article is about.

DQ:
1. Kantz is saying that facts, opinions, and arguments are actually all similar and they are only different when the person reading them thinks of them in that way.
2. Students always look at textbooks as the truth and automatically believe what they are saying. When a student is reading a textbook they assume that what the textbook says is going to be the truth and they don't consider the fact that it may not be true. I feel that I understand this now and will try to apply it to my reading.
3. Yes, she taught me that you can make your own argument about something and still use sources to support the argument without using the argument that the sources have already made.
6.I think that Kantz idea's will probably help me when I am doing research and writing because when I am writing a paper I will now think of the things that she has said that try to apply them to my writing.

MM:
Kantz is trying to analyze using rhetoric methods when you are writing things like persuasive papers. It would be useful for me to use this when I am writing different types of papers.


paper topic: plagiarism