Interact with your readings! Annotate, highlight, or take notes to engage with them. Use highlighters to color codes like terms or concepts.
Make sure to write down any questions you have while you’re reading—if you still have them after reading, take them to your professor, your classmates, or a tutor!
Look up terms you are unfamiliar with to better comprehend the meaning of what you’re reading.
Try to think through the material in your own words instead of regurgitating the reading. It can help to connect ideas, concepts, and arguments from your reading to previous content from the course, other courses, and your own life.
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