A&B 82-88, A&B 93, A&B 95, A&B 102-104

In college it is important to understand how to read rhetorically.  Many college students find her level reading difficult.  The Allyn Bacon Guide to Writing gives several reasons of why the reading can be so difficult.  The first major reason is "the complexity of the subject matter."  The concept in the reading is hard and with that  the text, can be just as confusing.  Somethings that can make  the reading hard is the "vocabulary, unfamiliar rhetorical context, unfamiliar genre or lack of background knowledge."  They use things like big vocabulary to almost give false ethos, thinking that it is a sign of education, but often they can lead to more confusion. In order to rhetorically analyze the different types of writing you have to look at it in two different ways, "Reading with the grain and against the grain."  To read "with the grain" is just like believing and doubting, which we talked about where you read it thinking like the author and then  think the opposite.