Academic Reading & Marking the Text Notes

Academic reading is reading with an purpose.

Take your time and go at your own

for comprehension. Strong readers reread.

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Proficient readers, writers, and learners are - not passive.

One example of active learning is engaging with a text as you read by the text.

Marking the Text is an active strategy that will help you to think critically about texts that you read.

By taking notes in this particular way, you will have a understanding and retention of the material being read.

The first step in Marking the Text (MTT) is to the paragraphs in the section you are assigned to read.

The second step in MTT is to through the assigned text once, without taking notes.