Challenging Text Tips

Reading a Challenging Text? 

Our Graduate Students have some tips & tricks to help get you through it!

• Take Your Time!
  • Use computer to listen to the text o Synthesize thoughts in sections
  • Reread a few times
• Become One with the Text
  • Read text aloud to yourself
  • Have a conversation with yourself
  • Synthesize ideas
  • Pick apart the text
• Tricky Words?
  • Look it up!
  • Don’t get tripped up over one word
  • Write down key vocab words
• Take Notes
  • Pull direct quotes
  • Reword text into friendly language
  • Speak notes into laptop or phone for digital copy
• Annotate the Text
  • Mark up the margins
  • Use Post-it Notes
  • Highlight & underline
  • Use symbols for big ideas & questions
• Make Connections  
  • With other courses
  • Share ideas with classmates
  • With other readings