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