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by snowwrestler
2960 days ago
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I think training in literary analysis is a secret superpower for life. It gives people tools to make reliable inferences from text about motivations, assumptions, biases, etc., and to spot attempts to use phrasing to hide or obscure things. Great for reading emails, contracts, reports, etc.--and for editing your own writing for clarity (or not, if that's what you're going for...). |
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what exactly do you mean by literary analysis here? i have (in my opinion) extremely good reading comprehension skills, in that i can read and understand the literal meaning of almost any text (provided i understand the context), and i got an 800 on the critical reading section of the SAT. on the other hand, i can't for the life of me read a book and pick out any of the major themes without having them spoon-fed to me. i was always terrified when i was expected to have my own opinion about a text to use as the topic for a paper.