Learning Outcomes

In this chapter we will:

• Review the information you gathered in Chapter 1 and use it to create your unique, purposeful reading.
• Reconsider some of our old habits that prevent us from creating a focused reading.
• Decide which observations will be included in your essay and create your essay blueprint.
• Create a controversial claim that will focus your essay and give it purpose.
• Develop the two-storey opening that will establish and focus your interpretive reading.