After I have finished reading “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” by Karen Rosenberg and “How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn. I felt this two reading is grabbing my attention that makes me wants to continue reading it because these two reading they all start with interesting personal information that they have been experienced. Based on their beginning of their writing it makes me reminds of myself personal things or something that I have experience when it is first time. I think for me to do better while I’m reading is to underline for keyword or interesting fact that I like about it. Circle vocabulary that I don’t understand and translate to the language that I understand and find the definition so when I go back to the reading it could help me to understand better and know what the author is talking about intheir reading. Three takeaways or tips that I would say is to ask question while you were reading, what is some advantages and disadvantage about the reading and how did the author wrote this reading how can it shows the reader the value of reading this story or passage.
In Rosenberg’s writing I like page 215 it says “Usually one paragraph at the beginning of an article, the abstract serves to encapsulate the main points of the article. It’s generally a pretty specialized summary that seeks to answer specific questions. These include: the main problem or question, the approach (how did the author(s) do the work they write about in the article?), the shiny new thing that this article does (more on this later, but to be published in an academic journal you often need to argue that you are doing something that has not been done before), and why people who are already invested in this field should care (in other words, you should be able to figure out why another academic should find the article important).” I totally agree with Rosenberg because not even just one paragraph can tell you lots of idea and important things throughout the few sentences. Although, Rosenberg use conversation in his reading mean to me you can see different opinion based on two conversation, this would make the reader or the audience to see to agree either one idea by their conversation throughout the reading. However, in the other reading “How to Read Like a Writer” by Mike Bunn. In his writing he uses bullet points to give some tips for better writing while you were a writer. Such as in page 81 he said “• How does the author move from one idea to another in the writing? Are the transitions between the ideas effective? How else might he/she have transitioned between ideas instead?” I think this really helps to improve your writing better because for me English is not my native language and I think it is not easy to move from one idea to another idea.
