Jessica Corona

Professor Huerta/Fernandez
English 242A/242B
1/27/17

Reflection 2

1. After reading chapter 3, list 3 key terms/reading strategies that you think are important to
discuss in English 1T since they will help students read challenging text like Freires
rhetorically.

1. Writing as You Read

a. (Active reading) - A technique by which listeners use eye contact and body language to
convey that they are listening carefully to someone. Writing as you read is active
reading (Pg. 40)
2. Listening as You Read Initially
a. Mark unfamiliar terms and references - It is important to mark unfamiliar terms and
references because they offer contextual clues about the intended audience and the
conversation of which a given text is a part. (Pg.47)
3. Listening as you reread
a. Rhetorical Reading- Often requires careful rereading. Of course, not every text requires
rereading; however, whenever detailed analysis is required or whenever a text is
particularly particularly difficult, a careful second (and sometimes a third) reading is
needed. (Pg. 54)
2. Based on the many reading strategies discussed in chapter 3, make a list of the strategies
you used to read Freires text critically and list strategies you read in the chapter but did
not use that could have helped your comprehension of his text.

Reading Strategies USED Reading Strategies NOT Used

-Active reading -Practicing descriptive outlining
-Record notes on paper/ -Spot reading
designated areas -Write summaries of what
-Note organizational signals I read
-Mark unfamiliar terms and
References
-Annotate

3. Select a strong line from the chapter that really resonated with you. Then, briefly describe
why you selected the line to reference.

Rhetorical Reading- Often requires careful rereading. Of course, not every text requires
rereading; however, whenever detailed analysis is required or whenever a text is
particularly particularly difficult, a careful second (and sometimes a third) reading is
needed. Experienced academic readers well often use the techniques we lay out in this
section as a way of keeping track of complex texts that they will need to use as a basis for
their own writing, perhaps as a taking-off point for a critique. (54)

I selected these strong lines because Ive always been the kind of reader that rereads text
multiple times in order to fully understand the context, and up until I started English
1S/1T and 242A/242B I always felt like I was the only one that used this strategy. For
some reason I felt stupid because I never could fully understand a text with just one
read, but now I see that rereading is a part of reading rhetorically.
4. Based on what you read about good rhetorical reader habits of mind and practices, how
would you rate your reading skills when approaching college-level texts? Explain briefly.

On a scale from 1-10 I rate myself an 8 when approaching college-level text. The reason
why I rated myself an 8 is because I already practice a lot of the rhetorical reader habits. I
noticed that while I read I make a lot of annotations, record notes, and mark unfamiliar
words which are all a part of rhetorical reading. There are also a few things that rhetorical
reading consists of that I dont do, but after reading about rhetorical reading habits I was
introduced to different strategies that I will now use.