1. Reading Powerfully:
Clues, Strategies
and Other Hints

2. Analytical Reading Defined
The use of previewing and marking the text in order to draw conclusions and evaluate the logic within a piece of writing.
Analytical reading must be done with your thinking cap on.

3. Strategies for Analytical Reading
Previewing:
questioning the text, making conclusion, identifying main ideas
Marking the text:
highlighting, making marginal notations, writing in margins
Being able to evaluate what is important and what is extra is a skill that can be carried into ANY profession.

4. Read first and then highlight selectively
Underline only words and phrases that state what that chunk of material is mainly about
Steps to Active Reading
Highlighting the Text
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5. Read first and then highlight selectively!

6. Read first and then highlight selectively
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7. Making Transitions stand out in the text helps you locate the ideas
Steps Active Reading
Finding Transitions
Making Transitions stand out in the text helps you locate the ideas
Transition Examples: first, for example, next, finally, therefore, etc.

8. Steps to Active Reading: Using the Margins
Write down main ideas in the margin
Use as few words as possible in the margin
At the end of a paragraph, ask yourself, “What was most of that paragraph about?”

9. Steps to Active Reading
Jot down ideas or questions and bracket them either at the top or bottom of the page you are reading
This will force you to consider the implications and applications of what you are reading.
Steps to Active Reading
Writing Your Own Thoughts and Questions

10. Steps to Active Reading
Write brief summaries
Summarize at end of sections and at the end of chapters
Brief phrases only
Do not read and write at the same time.