Techniques of Close Reading

Techniques of Close Reading, Second Edition, is a brief text that helps students see what tests-be they written, oral, visual, or mediated-may be saying. Renowned scholar Barry Brummett explains and explores the various ways to "read" messages (such as speeches, cartoons, or magazine ads), teaching students how to see deeper levels of meaning and how to share those insights with others. Within the pages of this brief book, students will learn techniques for discovering form, rhetorical tropes, argument, and ideologies within texts.