EDL 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rhetorical Device
12 Sep 2016
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A text: any representation produced and engaged by people in which the interactive process between people and texts creates meaning. 3 kinds of text: word, image and social. Image texts: anything represented through images: drawings. Social texts: representations found in live engagement of humans in social interaction with one another. To read any text means to create meanings out of the representations in the text. There is no true meaning for any text. We must say this is what i believe the author intended . Analytical reading: identifies the elements of the texts. Interpretive reading: puts text in a larger context. Normative reading: asks reader to reflect on how their own ethical and political values influence how they read the text. Argument refers to use of reason and logic to make a claim. Its purpose is to get at the truth. The claim(a claim without evidence is an assertation)
