the history of close reading

a guest post from Scott Newstok, professor and author

Today, I’m thrilled to share a guest post from professor, researcher, and author Scott Newstok. Recently, he collaborated on a new book all about the history of the practice of reading closely—and the book came out this week!

In today’s piece, Professor Newstok shares his top ten insights from the research he did for the book. I personally had no idea t…