Counsellors and connoisseurs
Try this exercise as a way to build students’ confidence in their ability to understand and analyze a writer’s style, and as a means of developing student skills of oral expression. The study of texts is a process through which one becomes a connoisseur of language. The main skill of critics – the connoisseurs of language – is close reading: "A thoughtful, disciplined reading of a text or other object.” (Nordquist,...