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Introduction
Kimberley Garcia and Rachael Benavidez
What is Close Reading?
Sarah Guayante
Closely Reading Poetry and Prose
Reading for Difficulty
Posing Interpretive Problems
The Heresy of Paraphrase
Framing and Introducing Literary Evidence
Analyzing with Literary Terms
Kimberley Garcia; Rachael Benavidez; and Sarah Guayante
Performing Close Reading
Literary Layers of Discourse
Posing Questions of Literature
Introducing Lens Analysis
Different Types of Reading
Organizing Lens Analysis
Lens Analysis
Identifying Intellectual or Interpretive Problems
Developing and Structuring Argument
Effective Paragraphing
Revision: Using Says/Does Analysis
Strong Research Questions
Functions of Sources: ExACT Source Use
Revision: Re-Seeing Your Writing
Citing Supporting / Secondary Sources
Sample Introductions
Melville Bibliography
Essay 3: A How-To Guide
Peer Review: Essay 3
Robert Frost "Out, Out--"
Philip Levine "What Work Is"
Rhina P. Espaillat "Find Work"
Louise Erdrich "That Pull from the Left"
Countee Cullen, "Atlantic City Waiter"
William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"
Nancy Morejón "Tobacco Worker"
Wallace Stevens's "The Snow Man"
Jamaica Kincaid "Girl"
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"
Tillie Olsen "I Stand Here Ironing"
Library Guide for English 130
MLA Citation Resources
CUNY Academic Integrity Policy
Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons Basics
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