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.