The goal of this week is to think about being a reader of academic texts.
Task sheet for exercise 5: Reading
The goal of this week is to think about being a reader of academic texts.
a) Read the essay by Roland Barthes “The Death of the Author”
b) Pick three snippets from the essay that catch your attention (because you find them
interesting, beautiful, irritating, obscure, revealing, …)
c) Elaborate on what it is that make those snippets stand out for you. Why do they ‘jump at
you’? What other topics or questions are they pointing you to?
Max. 1 page (pdf) to hand in by Monday, January 18
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