“Exploring a text often depends as much on focusing on what is said […] as well as focusing on what is not said – the silence, gaps or omissions.”
For example, the omission of the age in a dating advertisement is “a noticeably absent feature of text.”
We can also focus on “how different elements of the text combine to further consolidate (or disrupt) the meaning.”
The author suggests “reading with and against the grain of the text and focusing on how the different elements work together.”
“When studying texts you are also interested in the rhetorical work of the text, how the specific issues it raises are structured and organized and chiefly how it seeks to persuade you about the authority of its understanding of the issue.”
One last, very important point we should consider when we approach a text:
“It is worthwhile to skeptically engage with the assumptions embedded in texts.”
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