Reading Books-As-Whole Discussion Analysis
Reading Books-as-Wholes Discussion
According to Bauer and Traina book survey helps the reader to get a sense of what the writer’s purpose was for the book. Bauer and Traina (2011) state, “when one surveys the whole book, one begins with the literary product as the writer that we encounter in the text, the implied author, conceived it. We begin where the writer did. We begin by getting a sense of what the writer set out to do” (2011, p.79). Another important point made was, “They did not write bits and pieces (sentences and paragraphs here and there) and haphazardly slap them together” (Bauer & Traina, 2011, p.79). I liken reading a book, from the beginning, instead of reading a single passage, to that of seeing a movie from the middle
According to Bauer and Traina book survey helps the reader to get a sense of what the writer’s purpose was for the book. Bauer and Traina (2011) state, “when one surveys the whole book, one begins with the literary product as the writer that we encounter in the text, the implied author, conceived it. We begin where the writer did. We begin by getting a sense of what the writer set out to do” (2011, p.79). Another important point made was, “They did not write bits and pieces (sentences and paragraphs here and there) and haphazardly slap them together” (Bauer & Traina, 2011, p.79). I liken reading a book, from the beginning, instead of reading a single passage, to that of seeing a movie from the middle