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- Your critical reading of a text asks you to explore: why you like or dislike the text; explain whether you agree or disagree with the author; identify the text’s purpose; and critique the text.
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The Four Roles of the Reader also known as the Four Resources Model, provides a framework for effective reading practices with an emphasis on student cultural and community knowledge (Freebody & Luke, 1990, as cited in Luke et al., 2011, Rennie, 2011; Winch et al, 2014; Rennie & Goff, 2015).
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Reader response theory identifies the significant role of the reader in constructing textual meaning. In acknowledging the reader’s essential role, reader response diverges from early text-based views found in New Criticism, or brain-based psychological perspectives related to reading.
- Code-breaker. Code-breaking practices involve decoding of the text and understanding what the words and sentences mean. For this to be successful the reader must use all the cue systems semantic, grammatical, graphophonic and visual.
- Text user. A text users role focuses on the the way we use text to achieve certain goals, for example we may read an advertisement and then decide to purchase an item or we read a recipe to cook dinner.
- Constructing meaning. “Constructing meaning is where the reader is concerned with what the text actually means” (Winch et al., 2014, p.27). The reader does this by using their prior knowledge of the topic; it has been shown that they will understand a text better if they are aware of the topic and most of the language.
- Text critic. A text critic looks for the original thoughts of the writer within the text. They look at the literary, informative and especially persuasive texts to comprehend how language and pictures are used to represent specific characters, circumstances, places, cultural groups or scientific positions.
Alison Carter interrogates the dynamic relationship between the reader and the text, highlighting the important role of social context in signification and the making of meaning. Carter also considers the expectations of genre, and the preconceptions these create in the reader.
In general, while reader response theory offers valuable insights into the role of the reader in interpreting literature, its subjectivity and emphasis on individual responses can limit its applicability and objectivity in certain analytical contexts.
Feb 12, 2018 · Iser explains that there are two aspects of the concept of the implied reader: “the reader’s role as a textual structure, and the reader’s role as a structured act.” By the first of these, Iser refers to those elements in a text that help a reader to “actualize” unfamiliar or new textual material.
Reader analysis, a process that texts and articles describe as essential in writing technical documents, can be confusing because of the many approaches one finds. When the writer views reader analysis methods in general categories, the perplexing question of method be- comes clearer.
