Reading critically and attentively can give you the linguistic tools to share your own story with more precision. And that will help people to understand your joy and your heartbreak, yes, but will also. be helpful in many other ways, like when you are trying to convince the company to move.
What’s the point of reading critically. John will argue that reading is about effectively communicating with other people. Unlike a direct communication though, the writer has to communicate with a stranger, through time and space, with only “dry dead words on a page.”.
you’ll no doubt remember that writing (and the ability to read it) are so-called markers of civilization. Now, that’s a really problematic idea. I mean, for one thing, great stories can have great lives in the oral tradition.
of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn’t intended by the author, we still win. Yes, inevitably, reading is a conversation between an author and a reader. But give yourself. some power in that conversation, reader.