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Reader prediction of use and content of text: • this involves a consideration of what the writer is saying. This can be judged from the subject matter and the title. What does the title suggest? It is about the European Union and is suggesting it ‘belongs to its citizens’. The last phrase of the title is a deliberate play on words. Usually, an author would say ‘I am making three modest proposals’. This author is being controversial and states ‘three immodest proposals’. Usually, people will argue that they are only suggesting modest, small changes. Here the suggestion is that the changes are large and perhaps outrageous. The title also sounds like a political slogan, a call to arms maybe ‘The European Union belongs to its citizens’. So the article is, or should be, about proposals relating to the concept of the Union belonging to its citizens. 6.4.1.2 Stage 2: methods of reading Skimming Read very quickly and generally through the text noting: • publication date: 1997. The date gives a context to the article. You could be reading it years later when changes may have occurred. You need to know this. • headings and sub-headings: introduction; proposal 1: the European Legislative Ballot; proposal 2: Lexcalibur—the European Public Square; proposal 3: limits to growth; • author details: Name: JHH Weiler. Title: Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair, Harvard University. Job: Co-director, Academy of European Law, European University Institute Florence.
DOI link for Reader prediction of use and content of text: • this involves a consideration of what the writer is saying. This can be judged from the subject matter and the title. What does the title suggest? It is about the European Union and is suggesting it ‘belongs to its citizens’. The last phrase of the title is a deliberate play on words. Usually, an author would say ‘I am making three modest proposals’. This author is being controversial and states ‘three immodest proposals’. Usually, people will argue that they are only suggesting modest, small changes. Here the suggestion is that the changes are large and perhaps outrageous. The title also sounds like a political slogan, a call to arms maybe ‘The European Union belongs to its citizens’. So the article is, or should be, about proposals relating to the concept of the Union belonging to its citizens. 6.4.1.2 Stage 2: methods of reading Skimming Read very quickly and generally through the text noting: • publication date: 1997. The date gives a context to the article. You could be reading it years later when changes may have occurred. You need to know this. • headings and sub-headings: introduction; proposal 1: the European Legislative Ballot; proposal 2: Lexcalibur—the European Public Square; proposal 3: limits to growth; • author details: Name: JHH Weiler. Title: Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair, Harvard University. Job: Co-director, Academy of European Law, European University Institute Florence.
Reader prediction of use and content of text: • this involves a consideration of what the writer is saying. This can be judged from the subject matter and the title. What does the title suggest? It is about the European Union and is suggesting it ‘belongs to its citizens’. The last phrase of the title is a deliberate play on words. Usually, an author would say ‘I am making three modest proposals’. This author is being controversial and states ‘three immodest proposals’. Usually, people will argue that they are only suggesting modest, small changes. Here the suggestion is that the changes are large and perhaps outrageous. The title also sounds like a political slogan, a call to arms maybe ‘The European Union belongs to its citizens’. So the article is, or should be, about proposals relating to the concept of the Union belonging to its citizens. 6.4.1.2 Stage 2: methods of reading Skimming Read very quickly and generally through the text noting: • publication date: 1997. The date gives a context to the article. You could be reading it years later when changes may have occurred. You need to know this. • headings and sub-headings: introduction; proposal 1: the European Legislative Ballot; proposal 2: Lexcalibur—the European Public Square; proposal 3: limits to growth; • author details: Name: JHH Weiler. Title: Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair, Harvard University. Job: Co-director, Academy of European Law, European University Institute Florence.
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