WRA-130 Ellie Jensen

The beginning of this piece provides a bit of instructions as to how to take away the most information from this article: noting the importance when we read about reader responsibility, writer responsibility, intercultural pragmatics; inductive writing, deductive writing. The beginning of the article almost touches on the norm concept a basic understanding based around a specific society. An unspoken rule understood around the community. I appreciate the formality of this article. How well placed the citations to credit the text, although this is not the most interesting thing we’ve had to read, its easy to note that this is a professional piece.

The author does a nice job of presenting the problem and why its being created, why there is an issue in the first place between reading and writing responsibilities, tying the issues in globally by literally lapping different stand points together. The interesting structure of this article is each new body paragraph builds on one another. It can be repetitive at certain moments but you know that there is always an effort of relating every topic together to creating a bigger picture, it almost proves the importance of each body paragraph because they are connected to one another in certain aspects of the topic.

My favorite potion of this piece is the extraordinary obstacles preventing people from seeing culture when the author states the abstraction along side ones own culture. I felt it was well said and short to a statement that can go on for a paper in itself. The down fall of this article I fell is at certain points it becomes repetitive about lapping cultural ideas becoming difficult, I understand that the author wants to stress it is a prime and stressing issue but it makes the paper slower to read. Bringing in a visual with the charts and placing a specific example on the cross cultural examination with Asian students was done well in the sense it provided physical evidence of his point of view, a solid example that stood out from the length of this article. There were pain different points woven into this piece and I found that there was almost two papers in one but with that said the conclusion did full circle in my opinion well with all the information they provided. The citation was done correctly as well which is something I appreciate in the professional perspective of an article to be taken seriously.