Rosenberg

Karen Rosenberg shares her story of how her ways of reading has changed. At the beginning of Rosenberg’s college years she discusses how she enjoyed to read and would always find a comfortable place in the library to read. After realizing that you mostly read scholarly articles in college, she started to get a resistance towards reading and began to dread her assignments. Rosenberg attended graduate school and realized there would be many more scholarly articles that had to be read. She decided to bite the bullet and learn to find ways to enjoy and make it through the long treacherous readings. She states that it is important to understand why you are reading what you were assigned because it will help you gain a better understanding of the reading. She also says it is important to find the primary audience of the text as well as breaking the text into pieces. This will ultimately help the reader understand the text as a whole by gaining knowledge on the basic parts. Another important tip Rosenberg provides is to ask questions when confused. This will not only help the reader comprehend the reading on another level but also create conversation, which is the purpose of most texts.