... of display, as well as self-observation of a writer interacting with that object. The experience uses these object-oriented encounters to broaden students’ understanding of the role that close observation plays in effective writing while acting as a case study for how first-year composition instructors can...

... students closely observed objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and critiqued a museum tour before presenting on their objects on-site at the museum. As well as teaching students new skills, the project also encouraged them to use their own experiences as audience members in the classroom...

... in the gallery. Between their first and final drafts, the students became aware that a range of perspectives, including Prown s, mine, the post- doc s, and their own, guided their evaluation of the strengths of Prown s method (chiefly that it requires close observation prior to analysis and critique...

... in the present (73), we can gain firsthand access to the cultures that produced and consumed them. Prown proposes a systematic method for the study of material culture. This method privileges objectivity and follows a sequential progression from description of what can be observed from the object itself...

... in the gallery. Between their first and final drafts, the students became aware that a range of perspectives, including Prown s, mine, the post- doc s, and their own, guided their evaluation of the strengths of Prown s method (chiefly that it requires close observation prior to analysis and critique...

...) calls the “strategic knowledge” we want all English majors to learn and that we stop seeing it as opposed to close reading. Our study suggests a much closer relationship: the formal observations literary scholars make often take advantage of their knowledge of genre conventions or historical context...

.... As Malcolm B. Parkes has observed, “Layout, rhyme, and punctuation are the principal features of a written poem, which first arouse in readers the expectations that will govern their perception of its ‘poetic’ nature, stimulate close reading, and cause them to initiate the special processes...

..., the under- graduates and us. I sought not to clone myself as a teacher but rather to help the graduate students theorize their own teaching, as close observers and reflective practi- tioners who could use the perpetual feedback of the classroom to revise their strategies. I also know...

... at the expense of individual moral integrity. Thus a close reading of the film's narrative structure and conventions, as well as a critical engagement with the historical context of its production and reception, can be pedagogically fruitful ways of understanding and critiquing the processes through which...

...). A close reading develops from each student’s own observations about a text, and students’ ability to develop this independence is crucial to their suc- cess. Although this individual skill development initially seemed difficult to address in a large course, we felt it worthwhile to help...

... was prompted to read closely by reflecting on the inter- section of poetry and reportage and on both genres reliance on repetition. This student s observation is notable particularly because poetry has historically been framed as so different from breaking news. Consider Ezra Pound s famous dictum Literature...

... of his son, wiping the child’s nose, while observing closely what he sees as the too-friendly gestures of his friend and his wife. He tries to talk genially to the child, but his language is strewn with words that contain elements of sexual punning, beginning with the term of endearment “bawcock...

... toward a “close reading” essay assignment that invites students to develop and explore an interpretive question based on careful observation of details in a relatively short text. While this summative assessment thus emphasizes the kinds of interpretive reading and writing that are particularly valued...

... by being there and by spending more time talk- ing to each other about our teaching. He claims that evaluation systems that do not seek to open the closed doors of our classrooms cannot be effective. Single-visit observations are insufficient since they do not provide the evalua- tor with enough context...

...” of the English Club (61), and recognizes that “the students get sick of me, and I get sick of them” about ten weeks into the spring semester (154). Many of his observations will feel spot-on to those who have stood behind the lectern, but seeing Lang in this guise is akin to seeing a negative image...

... Lerita M. Coleman . 2010 . “Stigma: An Enigma Demystified.” In The Disability Studies Reader , 3rd ed. , ed. Davis Lennard J. , 179 – 92 . New York : Routledge . Brueggemann Brenda Jo . 1996 . “Still-Life: Representations and Silences in the Participant-Observer Role...

... wanted advertisements for runaway slaves to frame classroom discussions about the slave narrative. This lesson enhances skills of careful observation, critical questioning, writing to discover, and comparative analysis as it deepens students’ knowledge of African American literature. Copyright © 2018...

...) observed as the “labor and invention” of “creative reading” — the work of close reading, the intimacy of engaging with the specific language and parts of a literary text, the joy at a poetic turn of phrase, the wrestling with ambiguous or complex passages, the consideration of larger contexts...

... the public professions. Though we teach in front of students, we almost always teach solo, out of collegial sight as contrasted with surgeons or lawyers, who work in the presence of others who know their craft well. . . . When we walk into our workplace, the classroom, we close the door on our colleagues...

... twentieth‐century science fiction that shares some of the former's formal traits, specifically concatenation (interlinked series) and adubbement (abundant ornamentation). This alignment of new and old texts, combined with a teaching strategy that incorporates close reading, translation, and adaptation...