{"id":5,"date":"2017-05-01T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/chapter-1\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:14:52","slug":"chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/chapter-1\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Close Reading","rendered":"Introduction to Close Reading"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_269\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"466\"]\"Introduction Every text has an argument, you just have to look for it. Pixabay\/CC0 1.0<\/a>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWriting an essay at the university level means entering an ongoing scholarly conversation<\/strong>. Before you select an essay subject, you should know that throughout history, scholars have addressed and articulated similar concerns and ideas; many have dedicated their lives to these problems and arguments. So, rather than worrying about generating a new idea, it would be wise to aim for active and informed participation in that conversation. This is done via the process of analysis<\/strong>.\r\n
Analysis is when you read a text, find specific details from that text and use those details as evidence to examine that text's argument and purpose.<\/strong><\/div>\r\nIn order to analyze and contribute meaningfully, you must first understand all parts of a scholarly conversation. Therefore, the ability to close read and understand others\u2019 writing is vital.\r\n\r\nWe will focus the first six chapters on producing a close reading<\/strong>.\r\n
A close reading first gathers specific evidence from a text and then analyzes those observations in order to provide a thorough examination of that author's complex argument.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Assignment<\/h3>\r\nFor the first assignment, you will do a close reading of an essay and then write a 750-word essay analyzing an author\u2019s complex argument based on evidence from the text.\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"
\"Introduction
Every text has an argument, you just have to look for it. Pixabay\/CC0 1.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Writing an essay at the university level means entering an ongoing scholarly conversation<\/strong>. Before you select an essay subject, you should know that throughout history, scholars have addressed and articulated similar concerns and ideas; many have dedicated their lives to these problems and arguments. So, rather than worrying about generating a new idea, it would be wise to aim for active and informed participation in that conversation. This is done via the process of analysis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Analysis is when you read a text, find specific details from that text and use those details as evidence to examine that text’s argument and purpose.<\/strong><\/div>\n

In order to analyze and contribute meaningfully, you must first understand all parts of a scholarly conversation. Therefore, the ability to close read and understand others\u2019 writing is vital.<\/p>\n

We will focus the first six chapters on producing a close reading<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A close reading first gathers specific evidence from a text and then analyzes those observations in order to provide a thorough examination of that author’s complex argument.\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Assignment<\/h3>\n

For the first assignment, you will do a close reading of an essay and then write a 750-word essay analyzing an author\u2019s complex argument based on evidence from the text.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[47],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-5","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-standard"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/revisions\/1716"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/5\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}