Case Study On Reading For Better Writing

Even if it is not mentioned directly anywhere, a profound, meaningful and lasting personal experience is difficult to completely conceal when writing on the topic directly connected to this experience. Something a person enjoyed and developed an attachment to will always find a way to manifest itself even in scholarly work because people naturally get excited when they tell a story about something important to them.
Paige Greco’s text is filled with subtle indications of her fascination with the reconstructed Globe theater; one can point out without a doubt that those are her emotional responses scattered throughout the whole essay because they all are based on Paige’s personal experience as a spectator. A person who has never attended a performance at The Globe would hardly be able to express the same level of detail and artistic interpretation. In the second to last paragraph Paige incorporates a very detailed description of the audience and its role in the performance; she even goes as far as speaking metaphorically about it when she claims the public to be ‘the gently rolling waves of the ocean or the undulating hills of the countryside’. Those are clearly the words of a person who has internalized the experience and enjoys reliving it in her memories.
The material from the sources is mostly presented in the text in the form of direct quotations. Directly quoting the sources preserves the original opinions they purport to express. For a research like this it is important to support it with first-hand commentary and even with some anecdotal evidence, such as Tim Carroll’s story about 2001 production of King Lear. The focus is clearly on human experience and perception, hence the ‘human’ in ‘humanities’.