R ead
a paragraph or a section of the material you are working on.
- Do not read long sections because
you may not be able to understand the material if you don't
break it up into smaller parts.
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A sk
yourself what the main ideas are.
- Try to find the sentence or sentences
that give the most important ideas in the section that you read.
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P
ut the main ideas in your own words.
- Paraphrasing is when you put material
that you read into your own words.
- When you paraphrase the main ideas,
make sure you try to think of other words to say the same
thing as in the book.
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Q uestions
about the reading.
- Based on your paraphrasing of the
main ideas, write a question and an answer on the back of
a note card so that you can use this for studying.
- Compare the note cards that you wrote
on the main ideas of previous paragraphs or sections, so that
you can see how the ideas of one section are related to the
next.
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