Chapter 2: Close Reading and Textual Analysis: Section Overview
Aaron Tucker and Paul Chafe
Chapter Sections
2.1 Introduction to Close Reading
2.2 Learning to Read with a Purpose
2.3: A Close Reading Example
2.4 Close Reading Activity 1
2.5: Pause and Reflect: The Observational Paragraph
2.6: Close Reading Activity 2: The Observational Paragraph
2.7: Final Thoughts on Close Reading
Parts of this chapter have been reproduced and adapted from Aaron Tucker and Paul Chafe’s Write Here, Right Now: An Interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research (2018) by Ryerson University and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
