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ENTERING THE CRITICAL DIALOGUESCOTT SAMUELSON CHANDLER WARNICK ROBERT BROWNTABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionEntering the Critical Dialogue: Preparation, Profession, and PassionHow to be a Good StudentHow to ReadHow to Begin a Literary PaperHow to Revise a PaperThe Explicator PaperThe Theory PaperAppendix A: Spritual CriticismAppendix B: Learning to Write, A Short HistoryAppendix C: Why Write?4822404874841342682782922Scott Samuelson3Entering the Critical Dialouge4Scott SamuelsonINTRODUCTION Entering the Critical Dialogue serves a dual purpose. Practically, it functions as the textbook and reference guide in Brother Samuelson’s BYU—Idaho English 314 Research and Critical Writing class. More idealistically, it contains principles of writing, research, study, and life that could help any writer. The book’s duality extends to its structural concepts: combine practical guidance and instruction with philosophical discussion of principles, AND create text and on-line versions. When I recently bought some tricky metal shelves that required assembly, I did what I almost always do in such circumstances: I do not bother to read the text. Rather, I go to the pictures and follow them. One way to read this book is as a series of verbal pictures showing writers how to “assemble” three types of papers: a short, narrow, text-based explication (The Explicator paper); a somewhat longer paper that adds ponent of literary or cultural theorist as a lens through which to examine a literary text (The Critical Theory Paper), and a research paper with the attributes of the previous papers, a longer work that emphasizes the balance of critics, thinker/theorist, word studies, symbolism analysis—all applied in an original way as a fresh reading of the primary work. I have said that I love to look at pictures when I must assemble an appliance, tool, or toy. I should also confess to a seemingly contradictory preference: I love doctrine and principle sometimes mo