Close Reading

The close reading of a text enables us to think through the implications

of the writer and expand our empathy with the writer and enter

the philosophy of the text. Furthermore, I think that a close reading allows

for suggestions and even hypotheses which would be impossible

to formulate if we were to scan through a text. Although rapid reading

gives us the main ideas of a text, a close reading stimulates our capacity

to think, analyze, and think further about the connections with other texts.