Reading Rocks! discussion

Why do we analyze texts for their rhetorical moves? Why do we use them ourselves? How can we use our knowledge of rhetorical skills to help us in our lives?

We analyze texts for their rhetorical moves so we can understand the text better. For example, if I know what the "moves" are, I can better understand an author's bias so I can make a more informed decision about whether a text is believable or not. In other words, I can make an informed decision about the author's CREDIBILITY. We use rhetorical moves ourselves so we can make our point more clearly. So people can HEAR us or UNDERSTAND us better. These skills help us in our lives because we can get what we want when we communicate more clearly!!!!!

It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a way of trying to grab your attention. We as writers use rhetorical moves to get our point across and so that readers can understand our points of opinion. We can use knowledge from rhetorical skills in everyday conversations. To those who understand our level of personality goes up a whole new level of knowledge. :)

It's important to analyze texts because by looking at other's writing, we better ourselves as writers in learning different devices and techniques to include in our own papers. As we analyze texts, we get a better understanding at seeing good or poor writing.

It is important to analyze other authors writing to help improve our own. By understanding their own rhetoric "moves", we can add more to our deck of cards and use them later on. Understanding what others use, and how they are good/bad helps us understand what to strive for in our own writing pieces, whether for a paper or in our own stories.

Edgar wrote: "It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a way of trying..."
i totally agree to what you say. your post makes me understand what and why the author uses these skills. Keep up the good work.

It's important to analyze texts so we can get an idea of the author's message and learn ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the text. Rheotorical devices help us learn the author's opinion, and figure out if they're credible or not. Analysing also helps our own writing!

Edgar wrote: "It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a way of trying..."

I like that you mentioned we use rhetorical devices in everyday conversations, you are absolutely right!

Alyssa wrote: "It's important to analyze texts because by looking at other's writing, we better ourselves as writers in learning different devices and techniques to include in our own papers. As we analyze texts,..."

^^^^^what she said(:

James wrote: "It is important to analyze other authors writing to help improve our own. By understanding their own rhetoric "moves", we can add more to our deck of cards and use them later on. Understanding wha..."

I like that you mentioned, " By understanding... we can add more to our deck of cards and use them later on".

It is important to analyze rhetorical moves the author uses in order to understand intent and to apply information gleaned correctly to the situation. It is important to recognize what the author wants to say versus actual truth.

It's important to analyze texts so we can improve as writers, and also so we can get good grades in class.

Alyssa wrote: "It's important to analyze texts because by looking at other's writing, we better ourselves as writers in learning different devices and techniques to include in our own papers. As we analyze texts,..."

I like that you mentioned we can better ourselves as writers and learn different rhetorical techniques.

It's important to analyze the moves writers make so we can improve our own writing and make it our own.

Edgar wrote: "Edgar wrote: "It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a..."

Edgar--did you reply to your own comment? Make sure you're getting your eyes on 3 OTHER people's comments and replying to them. :) -Mrs. Miles

Vauwn wrote: "It's important to analyze texts so we can get an idea of the author's message and learn ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the text. Rheotorical devices help us learn the author's opinion, and fig..."

i agree and nice sentence structure yay

James wrote: "It is important to analyze other authors writing to help improve our own. By understanding their own rhetoric "moves", we can add more to our deck of cards and use them later on. Understanding wha..."

Nice metaphor, yo!

Analyzing the rhetoric moves writers make is important to find the techniques to help the readers understand the text better. It also helps in writing our own texts.

Alyssa wrote: "It's important to analyze texts because by looking at other's writing, we better ourselves as writers in learning different devices and techniques to include in our own papers. As we analyze texts,..."

Yes, I agree, and I also think that we need to analyze rhetoric in 'real life' situations and talking.

Meghan wrote: "It's important to analyze the moves writers make so we can improve our own writing and make it our own."

Yes, i totally agree. It helps me.

Laura wrote: "It's important to analyze texts so we can improve as writers, and also so we can get good grades in class."

yeah good grades rock yay woohoo you are smart laura

It helps us identify the different strategies the author creates and can help us connect to the author's emotions even more than just reading straight through the book.

Kaitlin wrote: "It is important to analyze rhetorical moves the author uses in order to understand intent and to apply information gleaned correctly to the situation. It is important to recognize what the author w..."Yeah, good grades as a bonus *(:

Laura wrote: "It's important to analyze texts so we can improve as writers, and also so we can get good grades in class."

It's not just the grades! It's important to analyze everything within context and purpose to understand what others truly mean.

Kaitlin wrote: "It is important to analyze rhetorical moves the author uses in order to understand intent and to apply information gleaned correctly to the situation. It is important to recognize what the author w..."

That you for including intent!!! I was just about to put that in mine, you were one of the only ones that did.

Analyzing the rhetoric the writer uses is important in order to help expand our writing process and help us be able to critisize writing easier. By understanding the problems another writer makes will help us with our own writing.

We use rhetorical moves to help make our writing better!

Otherwise we wouldn't know a lot of unnecessary things nobody cares about.

Laura wrote: "James wrote: "It is important to analyze other authors writing to help improve our own. By understanding their own rhetoric "moves", we can add more to our deck of cards and use them later on. Und..."

i agree, it helps us improve ours also

Edgar wrote: "Edgar wrote: "It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a..."

It does help with our own writing! It has helped me already!

Edgar wrote: "Edgar wrote: "It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a..."

Edgar's so smart(: i agree.

Meghan wrote: "It's important to analyze the moves writers make so we can improve our own writing and make it our own."

Yes, I agree. I enjoy taking other's ideas and making them my own.

Edgar wrote: "It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a way of trying..."

I agree with you!

It is important so that we can utilize them in our own writing and also understand their writing better.

Vauwn wrote: "It's important to analyze texts so we can get an idea of the author's message and learn ethos, pathos, and logos throughout the text. Rheotorical devices help us learn the author's opinion, and fig..."

Its important to use the rhetoric language to help us analyze other's papers(:. Agreed.

James wrote: "It is important to analyze other authors writing to help improve our own. By understanding their own rhetoric "moves", we can add more to our deck of cards and use them later on. Understanding wha..."

Yes, it definitely helps our own writings get better!

I think we analyze other peoples writing to better improve our own, and to get a deeper meaning on what the author is trying to say. We use the rhetorical devices ourselves to give more depth to a plain essay, and to establish ethos with the readers.

I think we analyze rhetorical moves writers make because it can completely alter how you read the text. Analyzing these things highlight aspects of the reading you never saw before, like the authors purpose or connotation. It also helps a lot in developing our own writing, we see new devices we can implement and discover existing ones we didn't even know we used.

Travon wrote: "It helps us identify the different strategies the author creates and can help us connect to the author's emotions even more than just reading straight through the book."

totally agree, helps really pull the reader in!

Kaitlin wrote: "It is important to analyze rhetorical moves the author uses in order to understand intent and to apply information gleaned correctly to the situation. It is important to recognize what the author w..."

I like how you distinguished what the author wants to say and actual truth, because in a lot of ways they're totally different things

Edgar wrote: "It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a way of trying..."

so busted by mrs.miles hahahaa, but i liked how you connected rhetorical devices on paper to using them in conversation, not something i thought of

I think it's important to analyze writers' moves so we can understand the author better, and in return understand their writing better. For example if we look at why an author organized a story a certain way, we can figure out the author's purpose and better understand their story.

Jess wrote: "I think we analyze rhetorical moves writers make because it can completely alter how you read the text. Analyzing these things highlight aspects of the reading you never saw before, like the author..."

This is kind of like what I said. So I totally agree :P

Alyssa wrote: "It's important to analyze texts because by looking at other's writing, we better ourselves as writers in learning different devices and techniques to include in our own papers. As we analyze texts,..."

I agree; it's important to look at others' writing so we can not make the mistakes that they do or imitate their techniques if they're effective.

We analyze texts to better understand and connect with what the author is trying to express in his writing. We use rhetorical moves in our writing to express the way we feel and make the subject and topic clear to the reader. Having the knowledge of rhetorical skills helps us better connect with the world that is surrounding and have more clarity.

Laura wrote: "It's important to analyze texts so we can improve as writers, and also so we can get good grades in class."

Lol, I like the last part. But looking at others' writing really does help.

Edgar wrote: "It is important to analysis the readers moves because as readers we want feel emotion and intrigue.We can also learn the way that author conveys ideas. The moves the author make are a way of trying..."

I like when you said, "To those who understand our level of personality goes up a whole new level of knowledge " because its so true, being intellectual makes your personality seem more appealing in that category of being smart.

Emily wrote: "I think we analyze other peoples writing to better improve our own, and to get a deeper meaning on what the author is trying to say. We use the rhetorical devices ourselves to give more depth to a ..."

I liked how you made the connection with the word 'deeper' and 'depth' because when you use rhetorical devices it creates a depth and further understanding and clarity to the pieces you are working on.

James wrote: "It is important to analyze other authors writing to help improve our own. By understanding their own rhetoric "moves", we can add more to our deck of cards and use them later on. Understanding wha..."

I like how you said "we can add more to our deck of cards". It's so true because with every bit of knowledge that we add to our current supply, we grow in our minds and as people.

We analyze texts for their rhetorical moves to find a deeper meaning of the texts. By understanding the writer's ethos we can determine their credibility. We can also use moves, such as transitions and tone, to make our writing flow and interesting, otherwise people wouldn't want to read what we have to say and possibly fall asleep.