Close Reading
Close reading helps students evaluate sources and analyze rhetoric by asking them:
• What claims does the author make?
• What evidence does the author use to support those claims?
• How is this document supposed to make me feel?
• What words or phrases does the author use to convince me that he/she is right?
• What information does the author leave out?
• What claims does the author make?
• What evidence does the author use to support those claims?
• How is this document supposed to make me feel?
• What words or phrases does the author use to convince me that he/she is right?
• What information does the author leave out?