The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing

by Roy Peter Clark

Book Overview

Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, offers writing lessons we can draw from 25 great texts. Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In The Art of X-Ray Reading , Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316282170
• ISBN13: 9780316282178
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"