“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? 

My rhetorical reading  strategies are not good at all.  I am unable to image what the writer is trying to describle to me.  Iam the type of reader that just read the text of the writing i memorize the content.


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.

writer based prose writes and tries to identify with the reader
reader based prose tries to understand the writer and hide the hidden messages
to improve my rhetorical strategies in writing i need to ask question, find out the audience and try to relate to them

Questions

1. What were your concerns about in a SQR? What would you like the group to consider, respond to, or evaluate on an SQR of yours?

2. How did you see/ evaluate the comments you made on your peers' paper?  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).

Answers to the Question

1. My concerns about an SQR are; first is the right information should be given in the summary,and the comments should be useful.  The material could be available for discussion, and the commenter needs to be honest  I would like for the groups to consider the writing as if they wrote it, and the response.  To make a good evaluation of a peers' writing, sufficient time and rigorous honestly needs to be given.

2. The comments that I gave on my peers' were not bias and I was honest.  I do think my comments would be consider by the writer to be fair and useful.  If I felt that the article need more to be included,  I commented that.  I would want my peers' to be honest with my article so i can identify my weakness thus allowing me to correct and improve my writing technique.