Report 1: Close Reading, Writing and Culture
McCaw, N. (2008, Jan 02). Close Reading, Writing and Culture. Retrieved October 13, 2013
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Summary
In this article, Neil McCaw examines the impact and status of close reading practice. The author argues his viewpoint based on the Discipline of Creative Writing. He claims that extremely narrow, practice based kinds of textual interpretations dominate writing workshops. Because of the narrow scope of the textual interpretations, the context of a broader sense of student learning and writing skills becomes limited. He reiterates in his article that reading culture needs to broaden in order to take into account a wider sense of ...