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Expectations - Teaching Writing from the Reader's Perspective (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Expectations - Teaching Writing from the Reader's Perspective (Paperback, Revised edition)
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By exploring and explaining the perceptive patterns that readers of
English follow in their interpretive process, this rhetoric
approaches the task of teaching writing from the perspective of
readers. As a result, students learn how to write with conscious
knowledge of reader's expectations. KEY TOPICS: Readers have
relatively fixed expectations of where in the structure of any unit
of discourse (clause, sentence, paragraph, or document) to expect
the arrival of specific kinds of substance. Taking most of their
textual clues for interpretation not from the meanings of
individual works, but rather from where those words appear in the
structure of a sentence or paragraph, when trying to understand a
sentence, readers need to find the answers to five important
questions: What is going on here? Whose story is it? What is the
most important piece of information in this sentence? How does this
sentence link backwards to the one that precedes it? How does this
sentence lean forwards to the one that follows it? In order to
answer these questions, readers look in certain places or
structural locations in the sentence. With an approach that
de-mystifies the language and writing process, the writer has new
powers to, (1) control what readers are likely to make of the text;
and (2) re-enter their own thought processes to judge both cohesion
and coherence. MARKET: Ideal for people who want a rhetoric that
approaches the task of teaching writing from the perspective of
readers.
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