How to Read Texts
How to Read Texts

Author: Neil McCaw

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-09-26

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1441108181

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Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including: - Debates around critical theory - The role of history and context - The links between creativity and criticism - The relationship between author, reader and text. The new edition now includes guidance on analysing a range of multi-media texts, including film and online media as well as the purely literary. In addition to new practical examples, readings, exercises and 'checkpoints' that help students to build confidence in their own critical readings of both primary and secondary texts, the book now also offers guidance on writing fully-formed critical essays and tips for independent research. Comprehensively updated and revised throughout, How to Read Texts is an indispensible guide for students making the transition to university study.

How to Read Texts
How to Read Texts

Author: Neil McCaw

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 144119066X

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Now covering multi-media texts and practical advice on essay-writing and independent research, this is an essential guide to critical reading at university level

Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy
Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy

Author: Scott Westerfeld

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 1188

ISBN-13: 1442443928

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All three books in Scott Westerfeld's around-the-world, steampunk, adventure trilogy, now collected together in one ebook bundle!

Close Reading of Informational Texts
Close Reading of Informational Texts

Author: Sunday Cummins

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-11-28

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1462507875

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This book has been replaced by Close Reading of Informational Sources, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3945-1.

Texts From Last Night
Texts From Last Night

Author: Lauren Leto

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-01-26

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1101196580

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In the tradition of The Truth About Chuck Norris, PostSecret, and I Can Has Cheezburger?, Texts from Last Night celebrates the funniest and most outrageous text messages from the instantly popular website There are few forms of communication that are more entertaining, appalling, and laugh-out-loud hilarious than the text message--especially when it's received in the wee hours of the morning from a friend who has had one too many shots of tequila. Texts from Last Night is a celebration of the best, worst, and weirdest text messages that have ever been sent, such as: •Before i could say "i'm not the kind of girl," i was •I got us kicked out of the bar because the waitress found me in the kitchen trying to make spaghetti •The ticket read "found nude in a tree" Texts from Last Night is chock full of LOL and WTF moments and will make any thumb-typer :) in recognition. Read Ben Bator and Lauren Leto's post on the Penguin Blog.

Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular
Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular

Author: Alison M. Jack

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1999-05-01

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1850759545

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The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been rewritten into texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible echoes and is reinvented, just as in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) many explicit and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered. In Texts Reading Texts, these readings of the Bible, and the ways in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been read, are considered from the two postmodern perspectives of marginalization and deconstruction. By reading the two seemingly unrelated texts side by side from these perspectives, traditional readings of them both are disturbed and challenged.

Close Reading with Paired Texts Secondary
Close Reading with Paired Texts Secondary

Author: Lori Oczkus

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1425817351

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Engage students in complex literary strategies as they dive into exploring rich pairs of fiction and nonfiction texts. Written by Lori Oczkus and Timothy Rasinski, this resource brings together two key strategies from the Common Core State Standards: close reading of paired texts. It provides teachers with the opportunity to use close reading strategies, reciprocal teaching, paired fiction/nonfiction texts, text sets, text-dependent questions, and hands-on activities. It includes 12 units across 4 content areas: language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Key differentiation strategies used in today's classrooms are provided including open-ended tasks and activities strong for multiple intelligences, and each unit includes text-dependent assessment for each text type. Aligned to McREL and Common Core State Standards, this resource prepares students for college and career.

The Reading of Theoretical Texts
The Reading of Theoretical Texts

Author: Peter Ekegren

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1134621140

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Since the structuralist debates of the 1970s the field of textual analysis has largely remained the preserve of literary theorists. Social scientists, while accepting that observation is theory laden have tended to take the meaning of texts as given and to explain differences of interpretation either in terms of ignorance or bias. In this important contribution to methodological debate, Peter Ekegren uses developments within literary criticism, philosophy and critical theory to reclaim this study for the social sciences and to illuminate the ways in which different readings of a single text are created and defended.

Iconic Books and Texts
Iconic Books and Texts

Author: James W. Watts

Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781781792544

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This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts. It traces their development and influence from ancient to modern times and compares their roles in multiple cultures and religious traditions.