Experts often contrast skimming with “close” reading, when a reader connects new information to prior knowledge, asks questions, and develops a deeper understanding of the text (although the ...

Drawing on an extraordinarily comprehensive bibliography compiled by Scott Newstok—a gift to the discipline that accompanies the text of On Close Reading—Guillory demonstrates that the term ...

In this final post in my series on close reading, Kimberly Carraway, Katherine S. McKnight, Harvey F. Silver, Amy Benjamin, Nancy Boyles, Rita Platt -- along with readers -- share their thoughts.

Close reading and its first cousin, text complexity, are the “IT” buzz words in the reading lexicon of late. So let’s take a closer look at close reading. First off, ...

Moreover, these critics claimed, close reading served to sequester the text from its social and political context, thus supporting myopic assumptions about literature’s autonomy.

Close reading, or thoroughly reading through a text, is the most effective way to understand a journal article, book, etc., but it also takes commitment and focus. Whenever you must present on a ...

I read closely, word by word, ... reading what was on the page with only passing reference to the biography of the writer or the period in which the text was written.

Close Reading: A Step-by-Step Guide Choose a Passage. If you have not been assigned a passage or poem, then you must select a text and a specific passage. Limit your selection to a paragraph or two at ...