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Fractured Reading: Experiencing Students’ Thinking Habits, Cheryl Hogue Smith
Fractured Reading: Experiencing Students’ Thinking Habits, Cheryl Hogue Smith
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This essay explains how the author’s experience when revising an unconventionally structured article revealed a source of difficulty often faced by struggling students as they revise their own writing.
Interrogating Texts: From Deferent To Efferent And Aesthetic Reading Practices, Cheryl Hogue Smith
Interrogating Texts: From Deferent To Efferent And Aesthetic Reading Practices, Cheryl Hogue Smith
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This article offers a revised version of transactional reading theory to explain how students classified as basic writers tend to employ counterproductive reading and thinking processes that inhibit them from full participation in academic life. Louise Rosenblatt proposes that readers have two main positions or purposes in reading—the efferent stance, where readers focus on the information in a text, and the aesthetic stance, where readers focus on the experience they have with a text. This article describes a third, deferent stance of reading that many basic writers adopt when they defer their interpretations of texts to other readers or defer …
Manhattan Beach Cleaners: A Teacher’S Misreading, Cheryl Hogue Smith
Manhattan Beach Cleaners: A Teacher’S Misreading, Cheryl Hogue Smith
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This article explores the value of understanding student misreadings.