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    This document provides guidance on reading critically to write effectively. It suggests considering the instructor's purpose for an assigned reading and choosing an appropriate reading strategy. Some strategies include prereading, annotating, thinking aloud, and keeping a dialectic journal. The document advises determining how readings relate to course themes, grouping details, and identifying complexities. It stresses interacting with texts as a writer to generate many promising ideas rather than searching for a single right answer. Readers should return to texts for clarification as needed when moving from critical reading to effective writing.

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    http://uwp.aas.duke.

    edu/wstudio

    Reading to Write

    Some books are to be tasted, others to be chewed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
    --Francis Bacon

    Some Important Questions


    x What steps do you take to prepare to read?
    x How do you interact with a text when you read?
    x How do you generate promising ideas from your readings?
    x What aspects of your interaction with texts do you want to improve?

    Some Tips for Preparing to Interact with the Text


    x Consider the instructor’s purpose in assigning the reading or your purpose in choosing the
    reading.
    x Choose among different reading strategies depending on the purpose.
    x Read as a writer.

    Possible Reading Strategies


    x Prereading: Familiarize yourself with the author’s purpose and perspective in advance.
    x Annotations: Make notes in the margin.
    x “Thinking aloud”: Verbalize what you feel are the text’s primary claims and arguments.
    x Dialectic Journal: Use a two column notetaking process.
    x Rereading: Never underestimate the value of revisiting dense prose.
    x Freewriting: Do not worry about style and grammar when expressing your immediate
    impressions of a piece.

    Moving from Reading Critically to Writing Effectively


    x Determine how the reading relates to the themes and concerns of the course or discipline.
    x Categorize or group important or intriguing details that seem related.
    x Identify contradictions and complexities.
    x Consider what the text leaves out and what questions are left unanswered.
    x Identify what interests you most or what seems compelling.
    x Locate the reading in terms of other “texts” with which you are familiar: books, articles,
    newspapers, music, film, etc.

    Final Thoughts
    x Reading critically means interacting with the text(s) with a particular purpose in mind.
    x Reading critically as a writer does not mean looking for the “right” answer but, rather, generating
    many ideas from which to choose.
    x And, finally, return again and again to the text for clarification.

    NEED SOME HELP?


    Writing Studio appointments http://uwp.aas.duke.edu/wstudio
    Check “Resources for Writers” link at the Writing Studio Homepage

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