The piece on rhetorical reading really stood out to me from the beginning. The piece started off with connecting to me as a person because I definitely am a person who reads a book and spaces out while reading. If I’m not into the reading that happens a lot. But that isn’t the main part of the piece, she outlines how every reader should take apart a piece and try to make a reader judge what the writer is saying too. The more and more I read the piece I realized I already do half of those steps to see what I’m reading. I do that because it’s always been a habit for me when I’m on the internet. I judge the piece by its title and introduction to see if I really want to read it and then if I do I continue with the other steps to see what the writers point of view is on the situation. Now the only problem to be had here is doing these with scholarly articles, it’s not a very familiar territory for me. Most of the time I’m pretty interested in the articles I read, but the pieces I’ve been trying to read for my scholarly sources aren’t really fitting the criteria of what the writer wants. The pieces to me have gone flat and boring, they are missing out a lot of points that I want to see in an article so I can be able to write a halfway decent summary. But anyway main point of this blog is to say that the reading has really refined the way I look at articles for information, and that I really do most of the steps leading to putting things together to find a good article. This article has taught me that I really don’t need to sit there and start hard to find something good, I have to read smarter and not HARDER.

Korn, Melissa. "Wealth or Waste? Rethinking the Value of a Business Major." Wall Street Journal. 14 Apr. 2012: A1+. Print.

Snyder, William. "Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier" 

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