ENG 101 Lecture 1: Notes on how to read
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Be somewhere where you can actually focus on what you are reading. Milner 4th floor (quiet floor); top floor of watterson. Think of what the instructor wants you to get from the text. Determine genre of the text (if you can) Receptive - for comprehension (when you look deeply and pay attention to an article to get a better understanding of a topic) Critical - for evaluation (when we read each other"s blogs to grade them) Skimming - general drift (looking through a blog to find examples of the way things are set up) Scanning - quickly for specific info (when grading/doing uptake chart we search for specific things) Search - scanning with attention to the meaning of specific rch. Search - scanning with attention to the meaning of specific items (when we scan articles to figure out what they are about) Take a few minutes to check out entire text.
