Reading Literature

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Reading Literature
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MARK TWAIN
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The Writers Goals

• To inform, instruct, clarify, persuade
• (serious and literary)
• A THESIS!
• OR
• To provide entertainment and escape
• (commercial, genre, formula)
• NO THESIS!

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ASSIGNED COLLEGE READING

• Writers Goal Are Serious
• There is a Thesis
• Critical Reading is Expected
• Themes The Ageless Human Themes
• Readers Must Ask the Appropriate Questions to
  Have the Must Comprehensive Reading Experience

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ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION

• What does the description or narrative
  illustrate?