Reader

readability and understandability of the readers, as well as maintaining the purpose of the text. Editors suggest appropriate changes according to what the writer wants to accomplish and the intended audience –which determines the content, organization and tone. Thus, the end result of substantive editing is a balance between the writer’s intentions with the reader’s expectations which in turn serves the text reliable, accurate and hopefully, useful. Readers respect authors when there is no faulty

Who is the contemporary reader? The contemporary reader can be anyone from someone living in a war-stricken country to someone living a first world country. Marjane Satrapi had to think about this when writing her autobiography Persepolis. She had to make the lessons in her novel relevant to every group of people. Even though many people say that Persepolis isn’t relevant to contemporary readers it is because it talks about different cultures, Satrapi’s coming of age, and the main theme; always stand

Good Readers Read for Enjoyment Many people have never considered, in-depth, the idea of what makes a good reader. Surface level first idea that pops into many people's’ heads is someone who can read fast and understand the text. In reality, the definition is debatable and much more complex. Being able to define a good reader allows for us to have a goal or guideline of what we, as individual readers, should be doing or striving to do. Some view a good reader as someone who can analyze and really

smart readers think? My first thought was, who has the ultimate authority to explain how smart reader think. I believe that there are particular mechanism that every does to understand and comprehend but to tell me how start reader think makes me feel like I have no idea on the topic myself as an educator. Then I started to think how is this possible for surveyor to find out how smart reader think. What I want to know from reading the chapter is how they are going to interpret smart reader from the

Every year or so, something happens in the media that brings us all back to the atrocities of World War II, and the German persecution of the Jews. It seems that the horrors of that time can only be digested and understood in small bites. How else can we personalize and comprehend a tragedy of that magnitude? Most of what we read and view in the media about the holocaust is a perspective from the Jewish experience. Recently, however, a question has been posed in regards to finding closure with that

The assigned reading of “Good Readers and Good Writers” by Vladimir Nabokov probes the subject that is the necessary attributes an individual must have in order for them to be successful readers and writers of literature. A list of ten rules is then stated in the essay and sets them as the baseline commandments that an individual must follow in order to be some kind of a devoted “good reader”. While the criteria sets the standard for a “good reader” it aligns with that of a good analyzer and can

Schlink influences the readers of the The Reader to explore the cost of issues faced by his characters. Readers are positioned to value the truth through the use of irony and Hanna’s charactisation as she faces the challenges of being illiterate. Schlink examines obedience and human nature through Hanna’s actions with the use of symbolism and charactisation. Michael’s narration and motivation is questioned with the aid of narrative voice, symbolism, and metaphors. Whilst the readers view the relationship

Plot twist whether terrifying, exciting or depressing many times end up the most integral part of a story. The big secret that readers are kept away from that helps them connect the dots. Author Jay Bonansinga analyzes the plot twist in his article “And then…Pull in your Readers with an Irresistible Plot Twist”.Bonansinga notes, “It usually happens on a wave of dramatic music, quivering strings and dronning bassoons, and it’s often accompanied by a tightening of the belly, an audible exhalation from

"The beginning is simple to mark". This is the opening sentence of Ian McEwan's novel "Enduring Love", and in this first sentence, the reader is unwittingly drawn into the novel. An introduction like this poses the question, the beginning of what? Gaining the readers curiosity and forcing them to read on. The very word "beginning" allows us an insight into the importance of this event, for the narrator must have analysed it many a time in order to find the moment in which it all began, and so

emotional and physical baggage of wartime are brought to light. The most obvious and prominent feature of O’Brien’s writing is a repetition of detail. O’brien also passively analyzes the effects of wartime on the underdeveloped psyche by giving the reader close up insight into common tribulations of war, but not in a necessarily expositorial sense.. He takes us into the minds of mere kids as they cope with the unbelievable and under-talked-about effects or rationalizing