QtA Queries

1.What is the author telling you? 2. What does the author assume you already know? 3. Why is the author telling you this? 4. What is the point of the authors message? 5. What does the author apparently think is most important? 6. How does the author signal this? 7. Does this follow with what the author told you before? 8. How does this connect with information the author has already provided? 9. Did the author explain this clearly? 10. What could the author have done to clarify this? 11. Why do you think the author tells you this information? 12. Does the author tell us why?