Significance
“Experts within scientific domains, then, draw upon rich representations of discourse as a social and rhetorical act, what geisler has called socially configured mental models, as they create and interpret texts and as they judge the validity and usefulness of the information within them” (Haas, 45).
Scientists use language to determine whether works of others are valid or significant.
Practices
“Each of these readers moved beyond an ‘autonomous’ text and tried to account for a number of situational or rhetorical elements-author, authorial intent, reader identity, and historical, cultural, and situational context-to ‘frame’ or support the discourse” (Haas 49).
Readers are practices using the rhetorical frame method of reading, allowing them to understand more than the simple facts that are given in a text.
Identities
“An extended 4-year examination of one student as she progresses during college, focusing primarily on how the student’s views of, and interactions with, disciplinary text changed through her postsecondary education” (Haas 46).
Through Eliza’s four years at college her identity changed in the sense that she had a better understanding of text and viewed text in a more complex intelligent manner.