Summary
In Rosenburg's "Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources" she talks about how she was once a person who couldn't read "scholarly" articles that were assigned in her college classes. She tries to relate her story to our situations, now, as college students. She finally found a way to enjoy writing and became good at reading these hefty articles with ease. Further into the article, she explains tips she has for writing a good paper. She talks about things such as focusing on your audience and using language and dialogue that will keep them interested and appeal to their likes. Also, she explains ways to identify your primary audience. Rosenburg goes on to talk about how to understand the architecture of an article by looking at the title, the abstract, the introduction, section headings, and the conclusion. She then explains how to find the main point of an article using these things just listed. In conclusion, Rosenburg tells readers that this article was designed to help them become better writers.
DQ #1
Identifying my audience was never hard for me. I always knew who my ideal persons of interest were when I was writing papers, even though most of the time my teacher was my audience. I would always just visualize who I wanted to read this, then I would adjust my language accordingly. I think visualization works the best and should be tried at least once. Rosenburg talks about identifying where the publication would be to find your audience. I also agree with that.
DQ #2
Turning reading into conversation isn't as hard as it may sound. When you are reading, you may have questions. You just have to keep reading and they maybe answered. You probably make comments on certain things as well. Look at that, your making conversation.
Opinion
This article was very helpful to me. Her explanations were very modernized. She steered away from the boring conformed explanations that most people use. I would gladly read more articles by Rosenburg if they were as educational as this on.
Good response, Joe. Your summary is especially thorough. However, your answer to question #1 seems to imply you are thinking of strategies for writing your own papers, when Rosenberg was really focused on making students into better readers of existing scholarly articles.
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