Nabokov's "Good Readers and Good Writers" Organization

The setup of "Good Readers and Good Writers" is very standard and normal. The standard essay format is just a bunch of paragraphs with an introduction and a conclusion. One part of it made it different from all the the others. The section where Vladimir Nabokov quizzes the readers on what a reader should be to be a good reader. Not many essays are like this and engage the readers to do a quiz. I found that exciting and entertaining. The introduction was one creatively written sentence. "My course, among other things, is a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." (Nabokov) He put it as though we were discovering a dead body and learning something new about it, when he is really talking about literary structures. In his essay, he allures the readers by asking a lot of questions. For example, "Can anybody be so naive as to think he or she can learn anything about the past from those buxom best-sellers that are hawked around by book clubs under the heading of historical novels?" (Nabokov) He asks these questions to make the readers think and use their imagination, as well as to make them want to continue reading his essay.

Nabokov, Vladimir. "Good Readers and Good Writers." Lecture