Chapter 9 of our Handbook dealt with "Reading to Write." The author addressed the technique of active reading, and its importance to understanding the text you are currently reading. Some examples of active reading that the text gave included previewing a text, highlighting a text, and annotating a text.
When previewing a text, one should skim through it by looking at the table of contents, pictures, and captions. When previewing articles, read the abstract or skim the introduction and conclusion for the author's main points.
Highlighting a text is fairly straight forward. The text suggests to actively read by physically highlighting and underlining key points and their relationships in the text you are reading.
Annotating a text means to think more critically about it by writing comments in margins and responding to the text. This could mean summarizing, defining, or noting parallels in the text.
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