Reflecting on My Roger-Like Approach to Reading and Writing

I identify with Roger from Penrose and Geisler’s “Reading and Writing Without Authority,” which indicates that my reading and writing strategy focuses on the summarizing and presenting of the materials as significant, separate perspectives. This means that I frequently focus on the content of what others have written, relaying their thoughts or results as facts, without challenging their biases. Most of the time I also do not spend much time examining alternate viewpoints, or linking them to larger arguments. Like Roger’s approach of accepting everything he reads as absolute facts. My summaries and evidence use are mostly simple, summarizing what is offered without excessive analysis. I am now more aware of how I write and will definitely use this to benefit me. With the blog posts I create for this class, I begin reading the texts with no specific questions in mind. This leads me to summarize since, without the question in mind, I was not looking for specific details in the text to write about. I realize now that, like Roger, I put all of my confidence in what the writer states, passing up the opportunity to critically analyze the work, Especially with the response you left on the blog postings. I truly have gone too far into summary with the most of them.