Reading: Invention
·What is invention? (What activities did the writer have to engage in
to create the text?)
·What is being invented?
(What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?)
In order to write this article, the author must have done
lots of research to collect resources about Pandora. In the article, Rob first described “The Music
Genome Project”, which was the back end of Pandora and was also the technical
support of Pandora. Then he even talked about how the Pandora be set up. Without researching, author cannot know such detailed and
technological thing about Pandora. Besides, the writer also used several feedbacks
form different users of Pandora to show readers how this app works. These
feedbacks might be collected from the Internet or form author’s friends. Also,
Rob must have tried the Pandora by himself.
In the article, the author came up with a question that
"are your music-consumption habits, in fact, not merely guided but partly
shaped by the cultural information that Pandora largely screens out – like
what's considered awesome by your peers, or by music taste-makers, or by
anybody else?" Rob believed systems that connect people with their
friends with similar tastes, or that rely on “collaborative filtering”
strategies that cross-match our music-consumption habits with those of like-
minded strangers. People trust their friends or trust “the crowd”. The writer
was trying to persuade people that the computer technology might help them find
out their favorite songs and the Pandora may influences users’ habits.
Reading: Arrangement
·What is arrangement? (What is being put in relation
to what?)
·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.
In the article, the
writer mainly talked about an Internet radio service called Pandora, which
could help users to find music that they really like. Rob first described “The
Music Genome Project”, which was the back end of Pandora and was also the
technical support of Pandora. Then, he introduced some background about
Pandora. After that, he came up with several questions, which is the invention
of this article, and he used several either positive feedbacks or negative
feedbacks form different users of Pandora to show readers how this app works.
These reflections came from real users, so readers will believe him more and
also will understand the idea more clearly. These are all evidence whcih helps
readers to consider the author as reliable and credible, and the reader might
respect the author’s views.
Reading: Revision
·What is revision? (What is the writer trying to
change? For example, what ideas, practices, etc.? What is the author’s
argument?)
·What is being revised? (What strategies are engaged specifically to
help the writer achieve the revisions?)
Most of people did not notice the existence if the interaction
between public favors ("social influence on listening habits"). Thus,
the author tried to revise this phenomenon, so he emphasis the significance of
this social influence. In the article, he devoted a great deal of time to
discussing technology behind the Pandora in order to show readers they can experience
new music on the basis of the music and not the influence of others.
