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INTR 101 04 Critical Reading
1.
2. What do you do when you are assigned
a reading for class?
3. Embrace Reading
How does it help?
• Acquire knowledge
• Develop an understanding of the material
• Introduced to new ideas and terms
• Gain more exposure to class material
• Get ideas for major assignments and projects
• Critically think and process information
4. Find and Understand the purpose
• Reading before class
• Introduce ideas, concepts, and formulas
• Ground the lectures
• Gain the basics of the class lecture
• Reading after class
• Clarify concepts and look for connections to lecture material
• Reinforce class time
5. Before Reading
Preview the material and prepare questions
• The preface or introduction, will help you understand what the text is
about
• Observe the Table of Contents, chapter summaries, and section
headings
• Develop questions about the material
• General or specific
6. Read with focus
Engage with the text
• Mark up key aspects of the text
• Definitions, examples, connections
• Highlight and underline things that stick out
• Formulas, definitions, main ideas
• Key concepts
• Take notes while reading
• Works well with especially dense material
7.
8. Read with focus
Clarify confusing material
• Carefully reread any material you find confusing
• Write questions
• Look up definitions
• Glossaries
• Footnotes
• Ask a classmate or instructor for help
• Build a foundation of knowledge
10. Develop a system for your own reading!
• Think about what you
want to get out of the
reading
• Keep the amount of
symbols minimal
• Adjust your system to
what you are reading
• Example: If there is a list
of terms for each
chapter, then you
probably don’t need to
highlight them
11. After Reading
Revisit the material
• Write your own summaries
• Create questions and try to answer them
• Reread important sections
• Look for where emphasis is placed
• Identify bold or italicized words
• Rewrite your margin notes into a notebook
12. After Reading
Discuss the material
• Connect with professor or TA
• Look for common questions and points of confusion
• Summarize the material to someone unfamiliar with the text
• Turn to your peers for added clarification
• Utilize Drop-In tutoring or SI-PASS
13. After Reading
Reread with supplemental sources
• Review sections that are confusing
• Search YouTube
• May contain summaries or explanations of the text you need to
read
• Look for supplemental readings to help clarify
• Example: Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and
Cultural Theory