Active Reading

A key skill for good writing is active reading.

Useful open-access guides for approaching sources.

Ashley Rubin's "How to Read Non-Textbook Texts"

Amelia Hoover Green's "How to Read Political Science"

If you analyse the structure of arguments as you read them, you not only understand better, but you learn more every time about how arguments are constructed.

Reading and Annotation Slides

Here we present some useful annotation practices using a short excerpt by Nicholas Carr. As the text is about knowledge retention in the digital age the content serves to support the activity.

Critical Reading as Writing

An example of how you can learn by writing out something tricky in your own words. (Click on the icon at the top right of the window below to open the google doc.)