Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Close Reading
- Understanding
- Key Skills:
- Skimming
- Identifying information
- Explaining answer simply in own words
- Link
- How ideas are joined.
- - QUOTATION 1 refers back to (insert point)
- - QUOTATION 2 refers forward to (insert point)
- Context
- Meaning of a word
- Explain meaning of word
- Word that helps understand context
- Explain
- Word Choice
- Quote
- Connotations
- Effect
- Imagery
- What is being compared to what?
- Explain similarity
- Evaluate effectiveness
- Sentence Structure
- Whenever simple sentence pattern has been altered.
- Anything unusual / use of punctuation
- Evaluation
- Consider writers' purpose
- Conclusion
- To sum up - does it refer back?
- Give final image / view?
- Leave reader with a question to ponder?
- EXAM TIPS
- Read blurb
- Read titles for clues as to writers' stance
- Focus on introduction:
- What has been done to intrigue reader?
- Have you got a clear idea of the writers' stance?
- Annotate as you read
- Topic sentences give a feel for main points
- Focus on conclusion:
- Were you satisfied with it?
- Has the writer linked back to anything?
- PUNCTUATION
- Colon : used to introduce elaboration
- semi-colon ; used to connect 2 sentences
- Parenthesis () - - used to add information
- Italics / bold used for emphasis
- Inversion used for emphasis