The essay, "Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov, is organized quite simply in format. The essay is basically laid out with a question being asked, the question being answered and then following with examples to support the answer. The essay also has some little extra thing at the beginning. By this I am referring to the beginning of the essay when it talks about the importance of reading carefully and specifically and in great detail before it starts with the first question. One of the first examples of this was when Nabokov asks, "Can we expect to glean information about places and times from a novel?" (Nabokov, page 1, paragraph 5). He then used rhetorical devices to answer the question and listed examples to support it such as Jane Austen's picture of landowning England and the romance Bleak House . I enjoyed the way the essay was organized. Asking a question, answering a question, then giving examples for it, made it easier and simpler to understand and follow. The one thing I did not like about how it was organized is it was almost dry because the layout was so repetitive. I think Nabokov could have improved how it was organized by starting with his weakness and least interesting point and building to his strongest.
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovcih, and Fredson Bowers. Lectures on Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Print.
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