Reflection of “Rewriting” on Introduction and “Coming to terms”

Reflection of “Rewriting” on Introduction and “Coming to terms”

The author use “rewriting” to teach reader how to understand the text and connect with readers’ own thoughts. Rewriting the book is does not mean just translate to the original book. It is more tend to know the text and use your own word to explain it. In this book, the author uses five chapters to teach readers to make the rewriting as a tool to understand texts.

In the Chapter of “Coming to terms”, the author emphasizes three aspects about rewriting: Defining the project of a writer, nothing keywords and passages and assessing uses and limits. The ideas from this chapter are more about improvement, analysis and response.

About the Defining the project of a writer, the author mentions that rewriting is more like “push the text”, and it is not just summarize what the writer said, but also need to know what things the writers want to achieve or accomplish. In this part, the author give some methods to defining the project of writer: finding the achievement that the writer want to say, making the connection between your ideas and the writer’s, and finding experiences or evidences.

In the second part, the author talks about the quote about rewriting. He mentions that quote does not just copy or mark from the original text, and it should be rewrite it clear and connected with your own work. It is a “flashpoint” for the text because it should be give the key points of the text.

In the third part, the author talks about the positive opposing terms. There are some examples: stories and theories, and atoms and bits. Each of them has the strongest and weakest part, and it just because the different vision. Negroponte states that “thinking more about their relationships and deciding that they can also be seen similar”, we should not just follow or copy the quote, but also need to analyze it and give our own response.

The last part also talks about the quotations, and it shows that when we describe the writing, we also need to make it forwarding and improving. If we rewrite the texts, make it further and moving to rewrite the texts better.