e introduced and described, and in Indians the skills were utilized and therefore shown how they operate in a strong reader’s essay. “I must piece together the story…as best I can, believing this version up to a point, that version not at all, another almost entirely, according to what seems reasonable and plausible, given everything else that I know.”(p.688)This one sentence appears to have the effect of not only summarizing the conclusion, but also proving that the techniques used to describe a “strong reader” are present in the essay and actually envelop the style in which the essay was written. The guidelines which Bartholomae and Petrosky conveyed as the attributes to a “strong reader” come to life and concisely reiterate what they are attempting to show in Jane Tompkins’s essay Indians. As the author of the essay, reading the text does not appear to show how being a strong reader would have any relevance to the essay written. After reading and studying the definitions set forth by Bartholomae and Petrosky, not only does the reader categorize Tompkins as an effectively strong reader, the readers see two other main points. The first point is that Tompkins’s strong writing ability can be directly linked to her ability to read “strongly” based on the ideas of Bartholomae and Petrosky. The final point noticed, was that without either the introduction to Ways of Reading or Indians, either reading would possibly lose validity. Each work studied in this duo, appears to aid the others’ ideas and arguments. The analysis and perspectives utilized in Indians are conveyed through the processes described in the introduction to Ways of Reading. Vice versa, the arguments made toward the makeup of a “strong reader” would not have been feasibly possible to illustrate without examples such as Jane Tompkins essay....
