What is it about?
A critical examination of the concept of 'reading as a writer' and how reading should be a route towards more culturally and critically aware writers.
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Why is it important?
The article is one of the first to properly engage with the question of how writers should read in a way that makes this reading most formative in their writing development.
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One of the first pieces of advice anyone who wishes to become a better writer is given is 'read more' - yet this advice is almost always given without self/critical awareness. And instead of replying with 'what?' they should in fact ask 'how?' - and then they would really get to the heart of the matter.
Neil McCaw
University of Winchester
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This page is a summary of: Close Reading, Writing and Culture, New Writing, March 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2010.527349.
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