Your audience should include your peers and professors (not just in ENC 1101, but in your major/field/focus), as well as professionals in the field to which you aspire

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Your audience should include your peers and professors (not just in ENC 1101, but in your major/field/focus), as well as professionals in the field to which you aspire. Each audience member should learn about how you read and how your reading process can meaningfully contribute to a community discussion.

Assignment Description

This course asks you to read and analyze rhetoric with the goal of developing tools to help you succeed in college and your career. To become a more sophisticated reader, it helps to understand why you read the way you do. You can use this self-awareness to capitalize on your strengths, improving your ability to critique and discuss other people's ideas. Ultimately, developing your reading skills can also help you better articulate your own theories and be more innovative in your chosen discourse community.

As readers, we filter any text through our own personal history and way of understanding the world. In Graff's article, Why How We Read Trumps What We Read, he argues that almost any text can become interesting fodder for discussion by virtue of how we read and discuss it. Reflect on how this applies to yourself as a reader.

How does your personal history and worldview affect what you read? How can you become a better reader?

Some factors to consider when exploring your worldview include:

• Your age.
• Your family/cultural background.
• Your unique way of analyzing the world, influenced by personality.
• Your general understanding of how texts are constructed as a writer.
• Your understanding of how any specific text fits into our culture and time period (e.g. how does your knowledge of gender, family, and political issues affect how you interpret a text?).

When reflecting on how to become a better reader, consider:

• Ways to change your current academic habits and practices.
• How to use your worldview more purposefully.

The goal of this assignment is to explore the following questions:

1. What makes you tick as a reader?
2. How can you enhance your reading skills?
3. How can your unique reading style help you in your college major and eventual career?

As you construct your essay, be sure to:

• Refer to the texts by Graff and/or Gladwell. You may also incorporate references to the other texts we have read or an outside source that is properly cited.
• Demonstrate that you can analyze the authors' rhetoric and connect their arguments to your own discussion.
• Use a clear, academic style of writing.
• Build an inductive argument:
• Explore how you tick as a reader, cumulatively building your points through the narrative of your essay.
• Conclude with your overarching understanding of why you read the way you do, how you can become a better reader, and how your personal reading style can ultimately help you in your college life and career.
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