Rhetorical Reading (Chapter 6)

Talking about reading rhetorically really helps explicitly express a lot of what we all do naturally when we are reading. One always finds sections easy to agree with and other points that seem blatantly wrong when reading. Most of the time I spend reading, I am either contradicting or agreeing with points the author makes. The text gives a detailed explanation on how rebutting/agreeing and making note of that (sometimes in margins) can help form an opinion about an article.
If one didn't make notes in the margins, it might be easy to forget badly supported points, especially in dry, academic writing. Also, summarizing the article pretty much shows a good amount of a response essay, if that is the assignment. The clear steps shown in the text really structures that way I think about reading.
However, I also found it very vexing trying to figure out how many times I am suppose to read any writing. Often, it's not difficult to commit to noticing much of the details the text highlights through the first or second read. Some academic, scientific articles may need many more reads, since they are filled with jargon and dense. Most of the reading I am usually required to do for college is not cryptic enough for me to read more than two times through.