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Chapter 6 invites you to start reading rhetorically and asks you to listen carefully to a text, recognize its parts and their functions, and summarize its ideas. To be a strong reader, you must also formulate strong responses to texts by interacting with them, either by agreeing, interrogating, or opposing them. By the end of the chapter, you should understand the following: 1. College-level reading is usually difficult for several reasons that include not just the complexity or unfamiliarity of the subject matter, but also possibly your unfamiliarity with the genres and rhetorical contexts. 2. Expert readers use various strategies, including asking certain questions of a text, writing marginal notes, varying their speed, and even translating passages they find difficult. 3. Strong readers use strategies similar to the believing and doubting games called "reading with the grain" and "reading against the grain." 4. Summary writing is an essential skill that requires you to focus on both the structure and content of a text; in order to appreciate both, you should write statements or questions that address not only what each paragraph says but also what each one does. 5. The three most common types of strong response ask you either to analyze and critique a text, come up with your own views on the subject of a text, or perform a combination of these two kinds of response. 6. There are specific questions that can help you analyze and critique texts, as well as questions to help you generate a strong response to a text.
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