Summary
Through a review of recent explanations of reading, this study described
a shift in the understanding of how people read. The shift has been from
the passive reader who receives and decodes information to the strategic
reader who actively chooses what, when, and how to read, reads interpretively,
and interprets the article as an organized structure. From that review,
this study derived a number of methods publications can use to serve the
strategic reader, listed in Table 1.
The methods of serving the strategic reader proposed in this study suggest
a vocabulary for beginning to name and understand some things that are already
going on in journalism, so we can find new ways to improve its practice
and training.
The activities of reading, interpreting, making models, placing events into
contexts, grouping experiences into schemas, and otherwise making meaning
are not just things readers and writers do. These activities help create
and maintain meaning in a world where rapidly changing facts have replaced
global certainties. All forms of writing can be part of that meaning-making
process.
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