How to interpret a text

How to interpret a text

By Juan Andres Osorio Meza Grade 11B

What is the interpretation of a text?

It is the decoding of a publication or literary document that goes beyond the literal sense in which it was written and discovers the original meaning or intention, or taking a different meaning for the reader.

What questions to ask to know how to interpret a text?

To interpret a text there are problem questions to be posed in order to correctly interpret a text such as:

1. who is the author?

2. What does the author intend?

3. What kind of text is it?

4. What kind of information does it provide?

5. What data is highlighted and minimized?

6. What does it imply?

7. who quotes and who doesn't?

8. What words does the text use?

How we interpret a text?

• 1. Read the entire text to get a general idea.

• 4. Contextualize the writing, that is, make a synthesis relating both the time and the author's work.

• 2. Underline the main ideas.

• 3. Write down the ideas and then order them to have greater coherence.

• 5. Use your own words to write the ideas you selected, you must relate at all times what you write with the author's thought.

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