A Close Reading Exercise From: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/Literature/21L-003Fall2003/E3B42E8B-1A45-447E-938E-7CC3C79F6FC2/0/notes_on_close_reading.pdf What does it mean to read a text closely and analyze it? Why do we do close reading in literary study? The answers to these questions emerge more from the doing than the talking. Briefly‚ close reading is a basic tool for understanding‚ taking pleasure in‚ and communicating one’s interpretation of a literary work. The skills employed
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point of the written piece? What did each section deal with? What questions did you ask yourself as you were reading? How can you change your note taking skills for the future? What would you do to retain this information for later use? How might the SQ3R method help you improve your reading comprehension and retention skills? Gen/105 Week 7: Reading and Comprehension Project 1. The main point of this written piece was to tell the reader what the eight most
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migrant-sending countries‚ particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However‚ while economic theory suggests a number of possible benefits‚ in addition to costs‚ from skilled emigration‚ the evidence base on many of these is very limited. Moreover‚ the lessons from case studies of benefits to China and India from skilled emigration may not be relevant to much smaller countries. This paper presents the results of innovative surveys which tracked academic high-achievers
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HO CHI MINH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (USSH) FACULTY OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE (EF) AN INVESTIGATION INTO INTENSIVE READING AND EXTENSIVE READING FOR LEARNING VOCABULARY OF THE SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH FACULTY‚ USSH A research submitted to The Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature By LE THI XUAN VU Supervised by PHAN THI MAI TRANG‚ M.A HO CHI MINH CITY‚ November 2012 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background
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Reading Reflection ENG 125 7/5/2011 Reading Reflection The literary work that we discussed this week was interesting to me in so many ways. The chapters talked about different types of literature such as poems‚ short stories‚ and also novels. Throughout the reading I experience literature in a way I have never understood before. Literature restores the past‚ stimulates the imagination‚ glorifies the commonplace‚ evokes emotions and links feeling to thinking‚ upholds a vision of the
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Summer Reading Assignment 2013 MYP Year 5‚ Honors English 10 AREAS of INTERACTION: Human Ingenuity Health and Social Education Environments Community and Service Approaches to Learning Essential Questions: How do humans endure traumatic situations in life? How do our values and beliefs shape who we are as
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chance to administer the basic reading inventory to a student. Before I administered the assessment‚ I took some steps in order to prepare myself for it. One of the first and crucial steps I did was researching. I first had to research how to grade and analyze the assessment. I also saw some videos on the Internet of teachers administering the assessment to their students with step by step instructions. I wanted to make sure I was well prepared just in case the student had any questions and because
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第一类范文 1. International travel sometimes makes people more prejudiced rather than broad-minded. Give out reasons why it cannot bring benefits to those visitors. Do you have ways to improve people’s understanding of the countries they visit? Prior to mass tourism‚ the phenomenon was virtually unheard of that international travel has made common people have bias against the cultures in tourist destinations. It‚ nonetheless‚ has aroused the public attention these days. There are a great
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than ever before for businesses to distribute important messages. While in-person and telephone communications are the most obvious ways local businesses communicate with clients and employees‚ there are other channels businesses can use that offer benefits that the businesses of yesteryear would never have imagined possible--or necessary. Here Some Methods of Formal communications. Mass Emails Sent to multiple employees/leaders in one shot‚ mass emails can distribute important news organization-wide
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the sin of covetousness” William Shakespeare. Living day to day‚ we are constantly influenced by our inner temptations that we carry throughout our life. In today’s world‚ desire and temptation leads individuals to make decisions that can either benefit or negatively affect the life of that particular individual. Both Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis know first hand the effect of these desires and portray them in the themes of their novels. Elmer Gantry‚ An American Tragedy‚ and Sister Carrie
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