The Art of X-Ray Reading - Roy Peter Clark

The Art of X-Ray Reading - Roy Peter Clark

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What: Clark leads you through how to read a text for its writing secrets.

Who: Roy Peter Clark is one of America’s best writing professors. He is a senior scholar at the Poynter Institute (one of the world’s best journalism schools) and the author of over twenty books on writing including Murder your Darlings, How to Write Short, and Writing Tools. 

Tone: Conversational, an exploration of text and how to learn from it. Your favorite professor at office hours.

Read it When: You want to disect a text. You keep asking "how do they do that?"

% on Writing: Medium - writing advice interspersed with text analysis and personal anecdote

Keywords: X-ray reading,

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Mentioned in: Voice - James Scott Bell
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