The Art of X-Ray Reading:

This is a review of The Art of X-ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing by Roy Peter Clark. This text explores different pieces of literature and the writing styles used within them with the intention of the reader using those writing styles in their own writing. Clark's text introduces ways to look at literature in a new way and improve your writing while reading.

Each chapter is dedicated to its own text or author ranging from The Great Gatsby and Macbeth to Flannery O'Connor and Harper Lee. On this site, each chapter is broken up into its own page with a summary of the chapter, a comprehensive list of the writing lessons within each chapter, and a critique of each based on theory and application in a high school setting.