"Absorption in the quality and structure of the experience engendered by the text can happen whether the reader is entrhalled by the adventures of the Hardy Boys or by the anguish of King Lear."
--Louise Rosenblatt
Nancy G. Patterson, PhD
Portland Middle School English Department Chair Red Cedar Writing Project Technology Liaison Assembly on Computers and Writing Associate Chair Tech Connect Editor, Voices from the Middle
More often than not, rreaders are encouraged to comprehend and understand what they are reading. Rather than question a text, they are urged to assume its authority, a perspective that encourages acceptance without question, passivity over active reading."
Dornan, Rosen, and Wilson, Multiple Voices, Multiple Texts
National Council of Teachers of English
Reading Theory
