Blog #5

In The Transition to College Writing, Hjortshoj defines a predatory reader as someone pauses their reading to consider the "what", "where", and "how", they are going to read. One strategy to predatory reading is reading with a conscious intention. Reading with conscious intention is when you're able to  intellectually pick the book apart and put it back together. You need to understand how the author what the author wants you to pull out of the text. Another strategy is letting yourself be absorbed in a book, it's characters, and it's plot. This is a pleasurable read, but rarely used in academic work. The five categories of the writing process that Hjortshoj identifies are prewriting or planning, composing, revising or rewriting, editing or proofreading, and release. Prewriting is about gathering your ideas together before actually forming your sentences. Composing is putting those thoughts down on paper with the thought that it may at least resemble a finished product. Revising is to see what you have written from a different perspective. You can either revise the whole essay, or just certain paragraphs. editing or proofreading is very close to revising, the difference is the focus to detail. How different words can change the entire structure of the sentence. Finally, there is release, and that is to simply get your paper to where its final destination is.