Reflective Response on reading closely Assignment | Get Paper Help

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Assignment #2- Twain Coda

Due Date: August 5

Reflective Response on Reading Closely – 2 pages

The following assignment asks you to provide a reflective component to the first assignment.  This will give you a chance to reflect on the action of writing the Twain paper, link it to your life, and offer a conclusion of sorts about the whole process.

The function of close reading is essential, in this course and well beyond the walls of academia.  To reflect on this practice and carry out the reflection of how close reading should go beyond the course itself, how do you see it as an important connection to life?

You were looking for “truths” in the excerpt of historical nonfiction from Twain’s book “Life on the Mississippi.”  The Twain paper assignment asked you to read closely to locate and identify rhetorical tools to help reveal the messages underneath language. Now that you’ve successfully done this please answer the following.

How does “close reading” affect the way we see what is considered true and/or real? Where else can you apply close reading in your life: reading people’s faces/mannerisms, looking closer at digital identities and social media posts, textbooks, cultural manifestations, instruction manuals, recipes, following rules, wearing masks, etc.? Why is a “molecular level read” (looking closer at the minute details of rhetorical strategies) important to us? What does a closer read at the molecular level suggest about authorial intent and audience interpretation? Feel free to respond further rather than just answering these questions. Connect it to other courses you are taking. What’s interesting about the process, what do you find cool about it? What connections did you make? Why should it matter to your life?

This assignment pertains to the learning outcomes from the syllabus as follows:

The major purpose of this course is for each student to achieve a personal writing tone that reflects collegiate level composition.

• Students will understand and demonstrate the reading and writing processes through invention, creative and critical (analytical) perception, reader-response feedback, and expository writing in response to reading assignments
• Students will develop a working knowledge of the literary tools that aid in the comprehension of reading assignments as well as in their personal writing.
• Students will demonstrate collegiate level composition as it pertains to appropriate reading perceptions and the incorporation of that knowledge within the writing assignments in response to the readings.