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Skim the reading for the main ideas.

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Consider any visuals.

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If using a highlighter for the text, use it sparingly

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learn the overall structure.

how are the chapters organized?

are there subheadings?

what is the claim/thesis supporting?

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pay attention to topic sentences as well as language signposts.

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Make notes on both what a piece of writing says and how it says it.

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Make notes in the margins summarizing the main ideas in your own words.

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Scholarly articles provide information that is useful to specific readers.

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Interrogate the text as you need and note similarities.

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Newspaper articles provide information on current events.

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How to remember what you've read when it's not for a test or quiz

Annotating the margins

Summarize Key Points

Identify Key words

Identify useful text

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Take notes of surprising or interesting points.

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Good researchers use sources to create their own ideas rather than summaries.

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Popular articles provide entertainment or opinions on current events.

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Take Notes to help jog memory and larger concepts

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Reading is the main source for research. No matter what kinds of research sources and, methods you use, you are always reading and interpreting text.

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Don't be afraid to re-read material before grasping the larger concepts

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Authors of scholarly articles are experts in a certain field.

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According to the popular view, when we read, we “consume” texts, and when we write, we “produce” texts.

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Underline and Highlight Key words, phrases, or sentences and connect them to each other

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To be a good researcher and writer, one must be a critical and active reader.

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Authors of newspaper articles are usually staff writers.

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Critical readers are able to interact with the texts they read through carefully listening, writing, conversation, and questioning.

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Ask critical questions

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Authors of popular articles are usually freelance or staff writers.

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The following are key features of the critical approach to reading:

No text, however well written and authoritative, contains its own, pre-determined meaning.

Readers must work hard to create meaning from every text.

Critical readers interact with the texts they read by questioning them, responding to them, and expanding them, usually in writing.

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Comment on the author's argument

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The purpose of research is not simply to retrieve data, but to participate in a conversation about it. Simple summaries of sources is not research, and writers should be aiming for active interpretation of sources instead

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Types of Info to Emphasize using Annotation

Thesis

Purpose

Tone

Main points and/or sub-points

References to other sources that keep appearing

Key terms/concepts

Other info that you find particularly important

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Scholarly articles are usually long and can include data and statistics.

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Newspaper articles are structured in a specific manner:

headline, byline, lead, and story angle.

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Popular articles have no specific structure.

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The purpose of research is not simply to retrieve data, but to participate in a conversation about it. Simple summaries of sources is not research, and writers should be aiming for active interpretation of sources instead

There is no such thing as an unbiased source. Writers make claims for personal reasons that critical readers need to learn to understand and evaluate.

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Use annotation to re-jog memory without having to re-read the material

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Help retrace steps of an conversation or topics that be helpful and useful to bring up again. Memory can only store so much.