How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Author:Thomas C. Foster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Come to think of it, we could do far worse than apply those in every artistic thing we seek to judge. I would expand the first question somewhat to something like, “What was the author trying to do, and how did she try to do it?” That larger question allows for not just aims but means. How does she structure her essay? What sort of voice does she adopt? What is her tone? What does the logic of the essay look like? And so on. From there, the expansion of the second question follows naturally from the sorts of questions we ask in pursuing the first. The third remains short and relatively sweet.

Our examination of individual essays and essayists will, over time, allow us to apprehend more fully the possibilities of the form which, as we already know, can say almost everything about almost anything.

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