Reading Closely Reading Critically (Find specific lines to support or exemplify your answers.) (Find specific lines to support or exemplify your answers.) What is the writer’s main argument? How does the writer Where, if at all, does the writer’s reasoning break down? make this argument? What strategies does the writer use? Where do you notice gaps in the writer’s thinking? What evidence does he or she use? Does the writer provide sufficient evidence to support his or her argument? Can you of counter-examples? What phrases, lines, or words strike you as significant? What assumptions does the writer make? Which lines raise questions in your mind? Which lines elicit strong responses? What are the limitations to and implications of the – – writer’s argument? What patterns or repetitions do you notice in the text? Who might disagree with the writer’s argument and why?
Reading Closely (Find specific lines to support or exemplify your answers.) What is the writer’s main argument? How does the writer make this argument? What strategies does the writer use? What evidence does he or she use? What phrases, lines, or words strike you as significant? Which lines raise questions in your mind? Which lines elicit strong responses? What patterns or repetitions do you notice in the text? Reading Critically (Find specific lines to support or exemplify your answers.) Where, if at all, does the writer’s reasoning break down? Where do you notice gaps in the writer’s thinking? Does the writer provide sufficient evidence to support his or her argument? Can you of counter-examples? What assumptions does the writer make? What are the limitations to – and implications of – the writer’s argument? Who might disagree with the writer’s argument and why?
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