Reading Strategies

I already agree with the first sentence of this section when it says "Academic reading is challenging". In my opinion, it is hard to read a text book! The reading says that is difficult to pick out the main ideas because of the concepts and vocabulary. It may be tempting to skim right over it but you really need to read carefully so you don't miss anything. A good idea is to preview the text. In this case you can skim over it because you are looking at what you will be reading. Annotating is when readers highlight key words, sentences, phrases or write questions in the margins. The reading suggests doing this as if you are talking to the author. This will help you understand the text better. Another part of the reading talks about a "believing and doubting game" which reminds me of a pros and cons list. To do this, you write everything that you can believe about what the author is saying. Then after doing that, you write as if you doubt everything that the author has said.