My definition of close reading: Close reading is when a person observes part of a text and analyzes it carefully. More specifically when a person finds a passage that strikes them, or they find it very interesting. Then the reader must question why the author used certain words or terms over others. How else could those words be said? What other words could be put there? How do they change the meaning? They must do this by annotating and paraphrasing the text. Conclude by asking, why did the author choose to use the words that he did?
I used the websites above to derive my definition. I believe that they both have very good points of how to do a close reading. In the first website I liked that it said "To answer some of our own questions, we have to look back at the text and see what else is going on." This makes sense because they author could have used different words to make similarities throughout the text. An important quote from the second website was, "Does your paraphrase flow smoothly from one point to another or does it reveal significant gaps?" This is important to think about because if the paraphrase does not flow well with the text it answers what the author was thinking.
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