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Analyzing Literature and Annotating Text

This session aims to deepen students' engagement with literature by exploring rhetorical situations and effective annotation strategies. Participants will learn how to develop and model rhetorical questions while sharing meaningful texts that provoke thought and discussion. The workshop focuses on the essential purposes of academic reading and the discipline-specific questions that drive inquiry and argumentation. Attendees will also delve into poetic and prose explication, emphasizing the importance of annotation in understanding and interpreting literary works.

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Analyzing Literature and Annotating Text

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  1. Analyzing Literature and Annotating Text Ben Lusk

  2. Session Goals • Engage in works of literature • Struggle with rhetorical situations • Annotate texts • Develop rhetorical questions • Share/model with students • Understand the need for interesting and thought provoking materials

  3. Purposes for Academic Reading • To master a course’s key concepts and ideas • To understand and apply the discipline’s characteristic ways of thinking • What questions does this discipline ask? • What questions have been answered? • What questions still need to be answered? • How does it acquire new information? • What is acceptable evidence? • How do you write arguments in this discipline?

  4. Questions Rhetorical Readers Ask Resource 1 • Meaningful Questions • Meaningful Journaling/Reading Logs • Anticipation Guides

  5. The Parlor Metaphor Resource 2 • What is conversation? What is its purpose? • What is a metaphor? How does it function? • Symbolic Drama and Action • When entering a “conversation”, what questions must a person ask to gain historical and future perspective? • How do new “frames” of perspective affect the conversation before, now, and in the future?

  6. Poetical Explication and Annotation Resource 3 • Annotation is the key to success with poetry • Students suffer from immediate interpretitus • Building a firm foundation • Framing the structure • Decorating the interior

  7. Prose Explication and Annotation Resource 4 • Annotation is the key to success with prose • Students do not mark their thoughts • Building a firm foundation • Framing the structure • Decorating the interior

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