which all these other methods must be checked—is by close reading and analysis of what
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Analyzing the Author's Purpose and Technique
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actually is written in the book or article. The remainder of this chapter is devoted to this type of
analysis.
What the writer includes is the best guide to what that writer is trying to do. The use of
many personal anecdotes might suggest that the writer is seeking your emotional response or
sympathetic involvement in the material, just as the heavy use of statistics suggests that the
writer's major interest is in providing documentation and proof of a thesis.
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