Book Club Reading
The first paragraph (lines 1-15) serves to
describe the extension of a particular activity into nontraditional areas
It can be inferred from footnote 2 that "Out of the Woods" is
an article about a type of retreat
The clubs referred to in line 39 are discussed in
an article published in the Wall Street Journal
According to lines 23-26, Stephanie Nolen's primary criticism of book clubs is that they
are too programmed
The organization of the passage can best be described as
descriptive analysis followed by a final judgement
The "recent book-club guides" (lines 45-46) tend to emphasize
how book clubs need to be structured and regular in order to succeed
One function of sentence 3 (lines 8-10) and footnote 1 is to
note the connection between marketing and book clubs
The function of footnote 3 is to
offer specific examples of one of the types of resources mentioned
The function of lines 52-58 ("Yet despite... abstractions") is to
point out a discrepancy between teaching practices and literary theory
The last paragraph (lines 49 - 64) marks a shift from
popular to academic contexts
The information in footnote 2 is different from that in footnote 3 in that footnote 2
primarily provides an illustration of a phenomenon while end note 3 primarily lists resources
The final sentence (lines 62-64) serves to
suggest a probable cause for an ongoing phenomenon
In context, the author places the term "book club" in quotation marks in lines 3 and 9 in order to
suggest that the term is being broadened beyond its original meaning