Haas is explaining the main problem that her article will address. She says that young readers are having problems transitioning from high school to college and being able to read academic articles early in college. She says these readers are reading these articles as if they had no context.

 

 

In the excerpt Haas is proposing a theory where she is saying readers read with a  “rhetorical frame”. Readers will try to fill in the blanks on information in academic articles they don’t understand fully.

 

 

 

In the excerpt Haas is explain to the reader background information on how young readers read during high school and early college. She is proposing that these readers approach an academic article with some knowledge on the subject and they use this to their advantage.

 

 

Haas then in this excerpt is now saying that these young readers use the for mentioned background information to fill in the gaps on information they don’t understand in the academic articles. She calls this way of reading as, “rhetorical reading”.

 

 

Haas is explaining her main point in her excerpt. She is proposing that the more experience and education a reader has, the deeper one would read an academic article. She is proposing that some people read different and analyze text different as well. Some try to fill in the blanks using rhetorical reading

 

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