Develop a reading analysis for Nancy Sommers’s piece, “I Stand Here Writing” (pp. 212-221)using the following statements and questions as ways to develop ideas for your analysis. You may also refer to the Sommers video in your analysis. As you begin to analyze, you are entering the conversation that Sommers begins to describe in her video.
The Stuart Greene piece “Argument as Conversation” (31-43)will further elaborates on this idea. Before you read…. Consider where your ideas come from when you write. Consider whether as you write you are aware of how who you are and what you’ve experienced impact what you are thinking about and doing? The section on “Writing Identities” from our graphic text (Understanding Rhetoric) will help you answer this question. As you read …. Is Sommers discussing any familiar ideas?
What ideas are new to you? Is she looking in a new or different way at some ideas you’ve thought about before? After you read …. ] Describe any challenges you are facing as you read. (The section on “Strategic Reading” from Understanding Rhetoric will help you respond to these questions.) Write down any questions that the reading raises in your mind? In other words, in what ways does the reading stimulate your curiosity and make you want to know more about something? Review your responses to the prompts and complete your reading analysis.
