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Inner Voice

Dialogue with yourself, the author, and the issues and ideas at stake. From start to finish,
make your reading of any text thinking-intensive.
- From Six Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard

Please record the thinking that is taking place in your head as you read. Try to maintain your conversation or
useful voice. This voice helps you make connection, ask questions, remember what you read, talk back to the
text, and offer your opinions.

Try to prevent your Waste of Time Voice (the one that causes you to lose track of, forget, and stop caring about
what you are reading) from taking over by setting a purpose for your reading before you begin.

You must write at least four sentences in each box. Dont forget to include the page number !

My purpose for reading: ____________________________________________

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