Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning.

Hass, Christina; Flower, Linda

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Publication Date: 1988

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Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning.

Hass, Christina; Flower, Linda

College Composition and Communication, v39 n2 p167-83 May 1988

Asserts that teachers should help students move beyond an information-exchange view of reading to a more complex rhetorical model of constructing meaning. Reports on a study which investigated meaning constructions and compares the more traditional function/feature strategies of constructing meaning with rhetorical strategies, which construct rhetorical situations for each text. (MM)

Descriptors: Critical Reading, Higher Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Reading Skills, Reading Strategies, Semantics

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