IAR Strategies for Reading

 Reading:  Invention

      What is invention?  (What activities did the writer have to engage in to create the text?)

The invention is a music recommendation service and custodian of the Music Genome Project, which following crowd’s interest to pick up songs by system. Named Pandora Ratio, a popular application on cellphones, such as Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android and so on.

      What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?)

Because Pandora nowadays becoming a really popular application around US and some other countries. Based on this situation, author shared own knowledge about Pandora and compared why people choose Pandora even though Pandora’s 700,000-song library sounds puny comparing with Slacker.com or Spotify.

Reading:  Arrangement

      What is arrangement?  (What is being put in relation to what?)

This is a research paper, shows author’s learning and arguments with Pandora or some similar music system.

      What is being arranged? (How are the things being put in relation to one another?)

Tip:  It may be a good idea to make a visual of the arrangement of the essay.

Author began this essay with showing Pandora’s work style, and lead to this company or this application’s history and growing. Between Pandora’s developing, author analysis company or founder how to collect crowd’s interest and how to let system looks more intelligent and accurate to fit in crowd requirement. At the end of the essay, author compared Pandora with Slacker.com and Sotify, which looks similar music system with Pandora and even their library contains more songs, but Pandora still people’s choice.

Reading:  Revision

      What is revision? (What is the writer trying to change?  For example, what ideas, practices, etc.? What is the author’s argument?)

The author tried to show some pro and con in this Music Genome Project, which used in Pandora. Argument in this essay is about system’s accurate and intelligent by following human’s requirements.

      What is being revised?  (What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions?)

Author used plenty of stories from Pandora how to solve customer’s question or trouble, and also had a lot of database to show his invention. That information made readers easier to understand and believe what he said.

Reflection of Paper 1

My paper #1 is a literacy about tennis, the area which I was not interested in but eventually fall in love with. I aimed to show some really important and necessary issue during my tennis time to you.There are some important reasons about why I choose Tennis as a literacy.Tennis not only teaches me how to play a sport or how to win a game, but also teaches me never give up when we meet some problem, and always keep trust ourselves. During the time I played the tennis, I understand the competitive and cooperation by this sport, the school study is not enough to enrich a person’s, everyone need there own literacies. This is one of the most necessary points to let me keep going on my later study; no matter what trouble I meet. Opportunity is always for those who are ready, waiting for the people who always lament the fate of injustice. In my later life, no matter on tennis or study, even work, I will always remember Miss Zhao’s word: Have you ever seen anyone’s life without trouble? Failures always before succeed, if you cannot accept failure, how can you be successful?Even thought tennis was more unfamiliar to me than Ping Pong, I still fall in love with "vitality" sport. Tennis gave me a lot of surprise and knowledge, which would always lead me in my lifetime.