The main focus of this chapter is reading critically and
how it can affect your essay. Reading critically is crucial in the world of
writing. Reading critically includes underlining and highlighting text, noting
your reactions, and taking thorough notes. It may be a burden while you’re
reading, but in the end it is very useful and can add on so much information or
thoughts into your essay. To use your research question to read critically, a
good step is to develop a position statement. Typically it may take a few tries
before you are able to come up with a statement that works with your essay
while giving enough information to make sense. Developing a position statement
has always been a little challenging for me, but the steps in this chapter are
very useful. This chapter also describes reading actively and how it can make
an impact on your future papers. Reading actively includes identifying key
information and ideas, writing questions in the margins, recording quotations,
take notes about how you will use the information, connecting sources, etc.
Identifying sources/genres as you read will help you with adding sources in your
own essay, and it’s important to determine what the author’s main point of the
paper is as well. By doing these things it will create a very successful paper
because you’ll know what your audience is looking for.
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