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| This sharpened awareness enables you to detect writing that shortchanges or misleads the reader, obscures meaning, or presents fragmented, incomplete, or distorted information. You will weigh the writer's thesis and evidence more deliberately in textbooks, memos, and reports. As you employ QUICK WRITING PROCESS in your own writing, you inevitably apply it as a standard, and a key to your reading. The Writer's Preparation As you read, assess the decisions the writer made about his or her relationship to the reader. What tone, style, or level of intimacy did he or she consider appropriate? How did the writer understand the power relationship: are you, the reader, dependent on the writer for instructions or crucial information? Does the writer need you to feel or think the way he or she does? The Writer's Planning and Generating As a reader with experience at writing consciously, be aware of how well the writer has defined the issue. Is the underlying or explicit thesis appropriately supported in the material? Is the thesis comprehensive? Does it include a view of the other side, and generate a coherent essay, in a balanced structure? The Writer's Product Test what you read to see whether the writer has illuminated the most important issues with the richest details and examples. Do the examples really represent the point the writer is trying to make? Do the analogies hold true, or do you sense the writer groping for authority through them? Are the explanations adequate? Are general statements and underlying assumptions anchored in specific facts, experiences, or analyses? Is the order of the argument appropriate to the task of making it clear and interesting to the reader? Is there, throughout, a sense of the writer's awareness of vulnerability: is he or she straightforward about the distinction between evidence and opinion? Can you disagree with some of the ideas or explanations and still trust the writer? Experienced in the struggle to say as much as you can in a clear, powerful way under pressure, you will expect the writer's conclusion to integrate the whole argument, as reflected in the most vivid examples or evidence. Does the conclusion broaden your perspective, and give some sense of what comes next, or of what direction to follow? Did the writer acknowledge the problems inherent in his or her argument, while putting forth a new way to look at the issue? After you've read a piece of writing, can you state the main argument in a sentence that contains a sense of the best evidence and the opposing side? Finally, can you appreciate, even admire, the freshness of the words, the way the sentences hold your attention, the way grammar and punctuation facilitate meaning? Do you feel the writer understands the work the reader must do in completing the transfer of meaning? As readers, we ask such questions because, in a common sense way, the answers govern whether the writing enlightens and entertains us. But we ask them because we have asked them of our own writing, in the hope of moving the reader to feel, to think, to understand, to change. As the whole process of communication becomes more conscious, we imbue it with more meaning and more possibilities. Reading and writing become inseparable: we read with an awareness of how good writing is possible, and we write with an awareness of what the reader will need to make good communication possible. |
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