Page ID. Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap. City College of San Francisco through the ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative. Table of contents: Poetry: Fiction: Poetry. Attribution. The following examples are essays in which student writers focused on close reading of a literary work. Some of the common mistakes include. Writing a summary. When writing an interpretive essay, don't just review the main points. Don't just give your readers a summary of the essay. Analyze instead,