Thought Peice 2

I really like how the first part of the article talked about the author experience reading academic articles and reading in general. I have a hard time reading myself because I have a hard time retaining the information and filtering through the important parts. As a communication studies major I do read a lot of academic articles, when I did my first communication project I had to find and use five academic articles.  I had to pull out different pieces of information from each different section of the articles. I was intimidated because it was something that I was not used to and I didn’t know what I was looking for. The structure and vocabulary that was used didn't exactly help the situation either, I had a moment where I felt like I couldn't read or didn't have's strong enough vocabulary to comprehend the articles.

 I liked the way the author explains how authors of the academic articles have a purpose for writing them. I also like the way she explains why we read academic text. It started to make me understand more of why I have read so many of them. I also think it's important to understand the role of the reader as well. I agree with the author when she says that readers also have an agenda. This was something that I never thought about. My agenda as a reader is usually to complete the reading before class and be prepared for what's next.

My favorite thing about this article was the different reading strategies used for rhetorical reading. I think it's extremely important when reading how to read academic articles. I wish I had these tips and tools when I first started reading these articles. I love how the author breaks down each part of the article and matches it with each strategy. I didn't learn how to read scholarly articles and tell I took an introduction to research methods class. There are so many things I didn't think of to consider that would help me be more efficient when reading these articles. I really like the last strategy of paying attention to the main idea; I think this is something that will be beneficial to me in the near future.

Overall I found this article to be very useful and helpful. I wish I read this article before I learned how to approach scholarly articles. There were so many great tips and suggestions I will definitely use these different strategies to help me get better at working with these scholarly articles in the future.