Techniques of Close Reading

• Focusing on the act and techniques of criticism rather than on schools of thought, grand theories, and specific methods, thus helping students to engage in the act of critical close reading in ways that are congenial to a wide range of methods - making the book an ideal companion to texts focused on specific methods
• Explaining the relationships among theory, methods, and techniques of rhetorical criticism
• Examining the ethics and risks of doing and reading rhetorical criticism via plenty of examples, figures, and exercises taken from everyday life
• Serving as a brief, affordable text, thus allowing instructors the flexibility to assign other textbooks