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Ways of Reading and Jane Tompkins

217;s effect on the final product. By the time Tompkins’s has to conclude her essay, the essay has progressed into something that has nothing to do with Native American’s relations; instead the initial subject has become a catalyst for her conclusion. “ I didn’t know what the facts were. All I had, or could have, was a series of different perspectives, and so nothing that would count as an authoritative source on which moral judgments could be based. But, as I have just show, I did judge, and that is because, as I now think, I did have some facts.”(p.686)As shown in the passage above, the argument that Tompkins’s is having with herself is generalized. The story behind this quote could be anything, Tompkins has utilized a story about “Indians” as it helped her structure her argument a little more efficiently. Also, reading the passage above, we see that Jane Tompkins has contradicted herself, this is another technique she uses to exemplify her idea, and she will clarify this contradiction later in the conclusion. “ The awareness of the interests motivating each version cast suspicion over everything, in retrospect, and I ended by claiming that there was nothing I could know. This, I now see, was never really the case. But how did it happen…Why did I conclude that none of the accounts was accurate because they were all produced from some particular angle of vision?” (p.687)Using her “strong writing” skills she is able to produce this contradictory internal dialogue transcribed into text to show how her ideas inspire thought, even within what she knows. This idea or argument in her conclusion becomes this: poststructuralist theory, perspectives, and their influences on factual sources throughout history. When describing a “strong reader” Bartholomae and Petrosky developed some attributes that they attributed to a “strong reader”. “ S...

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