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		But most essays, especially academic essays, begin with a close reading of some kind of text—a painting, a movie, an event—and usually with that of a written text.
		And, as with inductive reasoning, close reading requires careful gathering of data (your observations) and careful thinking about what these data add up to.
		Read with a pencil in hand, and annotate the text.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~wricntr/documents/CloseReading.html (917 words)

	What is Close reading? - guidance notes
		Close reading means not only reading and understanding the meanings of the individual printed words; it also involves making yourself sensitive to all the nuances and connotations of language as it is used by skilled writers.
		Close reading can be seen as four separate levels of attention which we can bring to the text.
		Only when we read it for a second time (or even better, a third or fourth) are we in a position to assemble and compare the nuances of meaning and the significance of its details in relation to each other.
	www.mantex.co.uk /samples/closeread.htm (2273 words)

	McClennen's Close Reading Guide
		"Reading closely" means developing a deep understanding and a precise interpretation of a literary passage that is based first and foremost on the words themselves.
		But a close reading does not stop there; rather, it embraces larger themes and ideas evoked and/or implied by the passage itself.
		Writing a close reading begins with these larger issues and uses the relevant details as evidence.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/s/a/sam50/closeread.htm (1077 words)

	Close Reading New Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Close Reading New Media is the first publication to apply the method of close analysis to new media.
		Close Reading New Media appears as part of SYMBOLAE, series D LITTERARIA, a collection of studies edited by the department of Literary Studies of The Faculty of Arts at the ‘Katholieke Universiteit Leuven’ (Leuven, Belgium).
		close reading, new media, electronic literature, analysis, criticism, narratology, literary studies, digital culture, cyberculture, hypertext, hyperfiction, electronic poetry, digital studies, software studies, cultural studies, mark amerika, darren aronofsky, m.d.
	www.culturelestudies.be /closereadingnewmedia (410 words)

	Close Reading and Rhetorical Forms
		Close reading is a way to generate a thesis: if you notice a pattern, you can ask why it is there, what themes or ideas it might suggest or support.
		It demands reading attentively, resisting the urge to skim; it involves a good memory for what came before, so you can tell if a pattern is repeating; it involves some awareness of sound, even when you're reading silently, so you can notice the sound effects of a passage.
		I did it, of course, to build up the importance of close reading, to emphasize all the ways it can be used and all that is involved in doing it well.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /H/Kenneth.L.Hodges-1/wclose.html (1383 words)

	Reading for Meaning: Unit Plan [English Online]
		The focus is on the close reading of a selected text to share and discuss with a group.
		Based on students' answers to questions, discuss and identify the type of reading skills they are using in the various reading situations.
		Read their selected text closely, noting answers to questions on a reading response log.
	english.unitecnology.ac.nz /resources/units/close_reading/home.html (1614 words)

	UW Bothell - Integrating Reading: Close Reading
		Because interpreting a literary or scholarly text can often seem to students like a mysterious (even irrelevant) activity of literary critics who are overly fascinated by "symbols," discussing close reading as a constant everyday activity in which students themselves engage helps to demystify the process.
		A good way to make students visible to themselves as already adept close readers is to ask them to describe a part of a conversation that they overheard, perhaps in the library or in the Commons.
		You may even want to stage a brief conversation between yourself and a colleague somewhere in the classroom (near the door, in the front of the room as he or she is leaving class and you are entering) just as students are getting settled at their desks but class has not started yet.
	www.uwb.edu /writingcenter/reading/close.xhtml (869 words)

	Close Reading Assignment-- English 213, Reed College Fall 2006
		Being able to write a close reading (Explication) of a poem is one of the skills that you are expected to master as an English student at Reed.
		The purpose of an explication or close reading is to unfold the significance of a poem.
		Before class you should read at least two of the Close Readings your classmates have sent you.
	academic.reed.edu /english/courses/Eng213/CloseReadings.html (1031 words)

	Some Thoughts about "Close Reading" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The assumption underlying "close reading" (intensive textual analysis) as a critical approach is that writers of literary texts (as opposed to, say, writers of corporate annual reports or of human biology textbooks) draw on a range of special resources, including conventions of form and genre, to make meaning.
		“Close reading” means making a practice of looking at not only WHAT the text says (its content) but also HOW it says what it says (its formal features).
		Read the passage, then RE-read it with a pen in hand, marking words and phrases that jump out at you.
	english.ucsb.edu /faculty/ecook/courses/english102/closerdg.htm (476 words)

	325 Close Reading Essay Assignment
		Close reading, as we hve learned, is the foundation of literary criticism.
		For this essay, you need to examine one of the two longer works we are reading and construct an argument that connects some aspect of the work (for example, theme, characterization, or sensibility) with the language the author uses to convey it.
		You should assume your readers read English, have a college-level vocabulary (thus you do not have to define words, unless the meaning the writer intends is not the usual one), and have a copy of the poem that they have read a few times, but need help to understand.
	classweb.gmu.edu /rnanian/325closereading.html (1152 words)

	digital digs: close reading versus clairvoyance
		I was reading Collin on the issue of reading at a distance.
		As I read it, the disagreement Collin is tracing deals with the objection to the idea of slicing/mining texts using a database rather than approaching them "directly" through a traditional reading of the text.
		Perhaps we might all agree to strive to read and write differently and thus to shift the enterprise of composition in a different direction.
	alexreid.typepad.com /digital_digs/2007/02/close_reading_v.html (914 words)

	WU GSAS: TATips-reading
		There are many ways of reading a text, some appropriate to certain contexts and not to others, and students may ultimately need to master most or all of them.
		If I feel students will be able to read the text ahead of time with reasonable skill, I will often require that it be read in its entirety on the first day of discussion and then require for each class session that they reread particular sections.
		Perhaps we read to extract an argument, to evaluate a claim, to get information, to understand how a term is being used, or to pass time on a long flight.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /GSAS/Teaching/TATips/reading.html (2631 words)

	The Critical Thinking Community - The Critical Thinking Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		To read well, in addition to having the above understandings, students must be able to identify the big picture within a text, to determine the key ideas within the text early on, and to see the scaffolding that connects all the ideas within the text.
		It is important for us to do a close reading of this opening chapter in order to acquire from the very beginning an insight into the most basic and fundamental concepts in the field.
		They read to discover and digest a wide range of points of view, especially points of view that tend to be ignored in the mainstream of the culture.
	www.criticalthinking.org /resources/articles/sts-ct-art-close-reading-p3.shtml (2854 words)

	CriticalThinking.org - The Art of Close Reading (Part One)
		To read well requires one to develop one’s thinking about reading and, as a result, to learn how to engage in the process of what we call close reading.
		For example, if you read a historical novel to learn history, you would do well to read further in history books and primary sources before you conclude that what you read in the historical novel was accurate.
		Whenever we read to acquire knowledge, we should take ownership, first, of the primary ideas, for they are a key to understanding all of the other ideas.
	www.criticalthinking.org /articles/sts-ct-art-close-reading-p1.cfm (2188 words)

	CLOSE READING EXERCISE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In order to facilitate this goal, students should be given opportunities for what is called “close reading.” Close reading is defined as an engagement with a text BEYOND the surface; in other words, a close reading attempts to discover and uncover those aspects of a text that are not as obvious.
		Obviously I am not referring to recall questions such as, what happens to the character in 20 years, but investigating what seems to be a gap for the reader is a perfectly acceptable close reading.
		Perhaps the most important thing that you want to remember is that a close reading of the text RELIES HEAVILY on the text itself; I am not asking you to research these texts.
	faculty.winthrop.edu /dennisl/close_reading_exercise.htm (517 words)

	FOR PARENTS, STUDENTS, FARSIGHTED CHILDREN: What is Convergence Insufficiency Disorder? Eyestrain with reading or close ...
		Eyestrain with reading or close work, blurred vision, blurry eyesight, exophoria, double vision, problems with near vision or seeing up close, headaches, exophoric.
		It is not unusual for people with convergence insufficiency to cover or close one eye while reading to relieve the blurring or double vision.
		Many undiagnosed children and adults avoid reading and close work or use various strategies to combat symptoms (using a ruler or finger to read, taking frequent breaks, etc.).
	www.convergenceinsufficiency.org (1206 words)

	Close Reading; Prose
		When you read something, it should arouse some sort of emotion, whether it be anger, love, pity, humor or a mix of the above.
		When you read for content you are interested in the actual material that the writer is using.
		The difficulty in using close reading is letting the writing hit you in the heart, before you start taking it apart.
	www.barrsenglishclass.com /prose.htm (3032 words)

	Close Reading of a Literary Passage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		To do a close reading, you choose a specific passage and analyze it in fine detail, as if with a magnifying glass.
		Close reading is important because it is the building block for larger analysis.
		You should organize your close reading like any other kind of essay, paragraph by paragraph, but you can arrange it any way you like.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/reading_lit.html (515 words)

	So, You Want to Do Close Reading!
		Close reading is the fine art of picking apart a statement to micro-analyze what it means.
		On an initial perusal, the reader is lulled into trusting the tone of calm that characterizes this narrator’s voice and believing that he is a victim of near-persecution without closely inspecting the way in which his language escapes his control and reveals the underlying truth the narrator would prefer to conceal.
		Ultimately, though this narrator seeks to evoke the reader’s sympathy through his careful choice of words and clever manipulation of the language, his own capacity for rage makes him lose the control he has so rigorously established, revealing a motive that he not only conceals from the reader, but may even be concealing from himself.
	www.angelfire.com /ab8/burkepage/closereading.html (1789 words)

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	Some Close Reading Tips
		You will probably also be led to choose new passages to close read based on your close reading of previous ones.
		But this is why a close reading always involves many readings of the same passage.
		This more pessimistic reading of the rose as love might not always be implied by the metaphor, but you'd want to consider whether this possibility was activated in the particular text in which the metaphor appeared, through its resonance with other moments in the text.
	mason.gmu.edu /~rmatz/close_reading.htm (1067 words)

	close-reading paper
		A close reading may alternate between moving word by word or line by line, and viewing a poem holistically.Consider how you come to the conclusions/decisions you make about the poem, whether it be by way of textual or extratextual cues.
		Even though this paper describes your experience reading a poem, you are writing it for an audience; this is not a journal entry, but an essay with organized paragraphs that guide your reader through the essay.
		An A essay demonstrates a sustained reading of a poem in its many complexities, and does not make assumptions.In such an essay, an exploration of a poem is foregrounded, rather than a simplification of the poem, and quoted language from the poem is smoothly integrated into the essay.
	www.willamette.edu /~ksand/closereading_paper_cw.html (526 words)

	Critical Reading Guide
		According to Elaine Showalter: “Close reading is slow reading, a deliberate attempt to detach ourselves from the magical power of story-telling and pay attention to language, imagery, allusion, intertextuality, syntax, and form.
		In a sense, close reading is a form of defamiliarization we use in order to break through our habitual and casual reading practices.
		In other words, the goal of close reading and subsequent analysis is to reveal what a work of literature means and how it acheives this meaning.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/sd224/Classes/handouts/CriticalReadingGuide.htm (2059 words)

	Holly Hammond's courses
		As you read, certain details will catch your eye; maybe the "Sing to me" that begins the Odyssey, or the word "homecoming" that is repeated over and over in the poem.
		That means reading every word: it's not enough to have a vague sense of the plot.
		Learning to read closely, with attention to the history of words and the meanings lurking in their etymologies and connotations, will go a long way toward making your paper solid.
	www.hehammond.com /REVclose.php (1958 words)

	Close Focus - Vision Correction LA, LASIK, CK Eye Surgery
		If you are in your mid-forties and have mild myopia (up to -3.00), you probably have discovered that it is more comfortable to focus up close and read without your distance glasses.
		This is referred to as monovision (mono for one - one eye for distance, one for close), and is an acceptable option for many (but not all!) individuals who desire to avoid reading and distance glasses for as long as possible.
		Reading glasses may still be necessary for sustained reading of small print. For further information about the CrystaLens and other surgical methods of reading recovery, please browse the Restoring Reading Vision section of our site.
	www.la-sight.com /close_focus_reading.aspx (1146 words)

	Amazon.com: Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait: Books: Martin Friedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Close grandly finesses the personal issue by maintaining that all of his paintings, irrespective of their subjects, are in essence self-portraits," writes Friedman, who clearly has his doubts.
		The first book to focus on Close's self-portraits and the portraits he has made of fellow artists, Close Reading is a uniquely intimate portrait of Close's life and work by the former director of the Walker Art Center, Martin Friedman, a longtime friend who has had unprecedented access to the artist.
		After covering the biographical details of Close's life-including the sudden illness in 1988 that led to near-complete paralysis, and the degree of recovery that enabled him to continue his painting career-Friedman moves on to a probing examination of Close's self-portraiture.
	www.amazon.com /Close-Reading-Chuck-Artist-Portrait/dp/0810959208 (1269 words)

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		It is the attentive reading of short passages of a text by noting: word use, sentence structure, tone, recurring patterns and the overall argument.
		If, however, the work is long—say, a novel—then one picks a sample passage for a close reading and then tries to relate it to the whole work.
		Your first job as a close reader is to identify the argument hidden in the text.
	www.sjsu.edu /upload/course/course_2128/Close_Reading.doc (607 words)

	Anderson376closeread.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The close reading is a method of "cracking the code" of a literary text.
		Close reading is a formalist mode of encountering a text which revolutionized literary studies in the U.S. in the 1940's and '50's.
		Even when a poem seems to point us to its origins (say, the poet's despair or fear of death) we should not base our reading of the poem on the author, nor should our reading of the poem be used as evidence for a theory about the author (say, that he was a kleptomanic).
	web.utk.edu /~misty/Anderson376closeread.html (500 words)

	BBC - Education Scotland - Standard Grade Bitesize Revision - English - Close Reading - Overview of Types of Text: 2
		In the Close Reading part of your Standard Grade examination, you'll have to read and answer questions on a piece of text.
		Read as much as you can so that you become familiar with this type of writing.
		When you are reading, think about what techniques the writer has used to put across their information in an interesting way.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/education/bitesize/standard/english/close_reading/types_of_text_rev3.shtml (548 words)

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