Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Bernhardt Reading


Quote
1: “These Multiple considerations of audience and purpose functionally constrain the text, influencing its shape and structure.”

Response
1: It’s very important to know what audience you’re writing to because you can base your purpose and structure to fit their needs. For example if you’re writing to a bunch of five year olds about a college topic they wouldn’t understand it because the vocab and structure you use would not make sense to them

 Quote
2: “Figures which are more strongly defined against their field will tend to appear more important than other figures which share the same ground.”

Response
2: If you want the reader to pay close attention to a specific area your headings can be important, when I see text in bold I usually pay more attention because I know valuable information can come from it. Also, when you use bold headings its helps the reader organize the text easier, so you can sort out the information in your head.

Quote
3: “Unconstrained by linear presentation, the reader can move about, settle on certain sections, read some sections lightly, some intently, some not at all, and still have a good idea of what the text is about.”….. “The localization of the text makes possible the selective use of the text by varied audiences for varied purposes.”

Response
3: These two quotes kind of go hand in hand, but im not sure how you can write something and spread out the information enough so your reader can understand most of the writing even though he/she might skip over something. I guess I can see how you can see the basic information if your skimming but like the one quote said what if you put some important information where the reader skipped over

Quote
4: “The text reflects decisions by the author to adopt a variety of strategies in response to varying ideational content and in the interest of assembling the information attractively for various audiences.”

Response
4: When authors can use different strategies to keep a reader interested maybe be one of the best tools for writing because sometimes when I read these essays from the English books I can’t follow the information because it’s all so repetitive. When the author uses different organization to display what they’re talking about I can usually follow along easier.







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