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As a college student, there are several important things that we need to think about when we read an article. Also, the writer have to be careful to not be a biased, because that can be subjective to others rather than objective. For example, in South Korea, whole politics government are in trouble right now because of corruption. Korean president, Geon-Hye Park, and she had helper on her back, Sun-Sil Choi but actually whole speech of president and politics issue were came from Mrs. Choi, not from the real president. Now everyone called Korean president is a puppet of psychic, because citizen well known Mrs. Choi is a psychic. To make a deal, President Park gave all national secret to Mrs. Choi and she got menace to a major company so she …show more content…

To be a college reader, there are several things that we need to know, and to be prepared before we read. Number one priority of being a successful college reader is we need to know the vocabulary. If we do not know the vocabulary, we can not fully understand of the contents and that will affect really big for us because it also could break the rhetorical triangle. In addition, paraphrasing is another important as a college reader, and of course the vocabulary is the basic steps of paraphrasing. Basically, paraphrasing means is that we have to explain the contents just using our own word and own thoughts. If we could not fully understand the meaning of the contents, we can not paraphrase the text. For example, I paraphrased one of paragraph in ‘Idiot Nation’ by Michael Moore in class, but then I was stuck because of the vocabulary. I started to circle the word that I don’t know and found them out in my national language, and then I was able to paraphrase the text. It is really important to know a lot of vocabulary so the writer and the reader fluently understanding each other, and we can do paraphrase of the

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