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OP 29. Mining Texts in Reading to Write

By Stuart Greene

Summary: In this paper, Greene proposes a set of strategies for connecting reading and writing, discussing ways writers read and select information from source texts when they have a sense of authorship. In order to make clear how authorship affects reading, Greene explores three key "excavation" strategies students employ for what he terms "mining" a text—reconstructing context, inferring or imposing structure, and seeing choices in language. October, 1991; 18 pages.

OP 29. Mining Texts in Reading to Write
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