READING

WEB 11103READING FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

TO BE ASSESSED PERCENTAGE %

QUIZFINAL EXAM

1020

READING & VOCABULARY FOLIO 30

PRESENTATION 20

SUMMARY WRITING 20

TOTAL 100

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Topics for this week

• Pre-reading strategies

• Highlighting text

• Marking marginal notes

7 Pre-reading Strategies by Jared Dees

• We naturally understand better when we know something about what we are reading, even if it is a small amount.

Ways to survey a reading ahead of time:

Read the titles and subtitles of the chapter or reading.

Look closely at the pictures, graphs, and captions in the assigned reading.

Note the bold and italicized words

Note words that are repeated often.

Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph.

With this strategies, students will be able to:

Make a list of questions that might be asked about the assigned reading

Make predictions about what they think the reading is about

Write a few summary statements

Create an outline or mind-map that can be filled in as they read

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Marking marginal notes

To read carefully, it is essential that you write "all over" what you read, usually in the margins or between the lines–wherever there is space.

Marginal notes will help you to conceptualize the piece as you read and will save you time later on if you have to summarize or discuss it.

By annotating, you'll be creating a shorthand version of what you're reading to which you can return later for

reference.

It's always much easier to navigate something you read a few days ago if you have taken detailed marginal notes.

Also, careful marginal notes make the process of summarizing the article.

Underline passages that seem crucial to the point of the paragraph or to the larger thesis of the piece, if it has one.

Put a star, or some marker of your choosing next to sections that seem to be very important.

Don't worry about neatness or correctness.

- It really doesn't matter if anyone else can understand the notes you are taking; it only matters that you can.

Look up words you do not understand; that's why you one of our required texts is a compact dictionary.

Reread sections you don't understand #