A study from Harvard School of Public Health found an association with red meat consumption and increased risk of a shortened lifespan. Eating healthier protein sources such as fish, poultry, nuts, and legumes was associated with a lower risk of mortality.
Close reading. In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, effected by close attention to individual words, the syntax, and the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as the reader scans the line of text. In contemporary English practice, the technique of close reading was pioneered by I. A. Richards and his student William Empson; close reading then was technically dev
And, as with inductive reasoning, close reading requires careful gathering of data (your observations) and careful thinking about what these data add up to. How to Begin: 1. Read with a pencil in hand, and annotate the text.hen we respond to a text in this way, we not only force ourselves to pay close attention, but we also begin to think with the author about the evidenceâthe first step in moving from reader to writer. Here's a sample passage by anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley.