English Reading Assessment

Why do you decide to read?

• Humor
  To experience the laughter, joy, and excitement of a story.
• Experience
  Being able to feel a completely different world or drama compared to what you experience through on a daily basis
• Information
  Gathering and understanding new content and knowledge towards topics that you’re curious
• Emotions
  To enjoy the mix of emotions felt throughout the story such as sadness, happiness, anger, and frustration
• Satisfaction
  Feeling accomplished once you’ve completed a story and the feeling of wanting more
• Relating
  Being able to find something that relates to your life, especially the issues or insecurities you deal with every day
• Escape
  On a contrary, it can also give a sense of escape towards reality and enter a world that is unlike any other

The audience, and the significance of writers

I believe that audience is the most significant factor in determining whether a story works and if it can be used as a media of expression and spreading relatable information, especially for writers. Writers have to create a destined target audience to make sure that the story that they are creating is relatable and enjoyable for others that are appropriate for a certain target. For example, a horrific fictional drama is not meant for children rather teenagers and adults. Writers, in fact, have such a big influence towards writers as they are people apart of the society that the writer can specifically connect with as they show the same level of interest or hobbies as them through the content that the writers make. If the audience dislikes or completely disagree with the story as far as even banning the book, it can give great criticism to writers as to what is supposed to published or not.

Purpose of writing

• To express personal thoughts or emotions
• Spreading a message towards an issue
• Educating the audience, both children, and adults
• Uniting different people towards a similar interest
• Giving a perspective of the world and its conditions
• Creating a character/hero that people can look up to
• Persuading audience to believe in their views
• Protest towards an unpleasant or situation

Reflection on “Read Like a Reader, Reader Like a Writer”

I think that one of the biggest conclusions that I got from reading this article is the new understanding of reading through the perspective of a writer which is quite different than reading as an audience or common reader. There are 6 major points that I received from reading this written piece are ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, convention. Basically what differs writers and readers when approaching a story is that readers focus more on the content and the actual story that is happening while writers focus more towards how the content is being conveyed such as the literary techniques and use of writing skill