Content
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    Why Reading is important?
      Q&A with students
   •
    Why to Read?
   •
    Difference between reading for school 
    and for university assignments
   •
    Reading Strategies:
    ▫
      Previewing
    ▫
     Annotating
    ▫
     Outline, summarize, analyze
    ▫
     Contextualize
   •
    Reading in a Foreign Language
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       Most importantly good reading 
       skills lead to academic success
   School vs University
   •University readings 
   are more sophisticated
   •Students required 
   not only read the text, 
   but rather critically 
   engage with it
                      •  The amount of 
                        reading is much 
                             greater 
                         than in school
   How to read effectively?
   •Critical reading-active engagement with 
    texts – is essential to your academic 
    success at AUCA and to your intellectual 
    growth
   •Reading strategies:
    ▫Previewing
    ▫Annotating
    ▫Outline, summarize, analyze
    ▫Contextualize
   Previewing 
   Previewing enables you to develop a set of 
     expectation about the scope and aim 
               of the text. 
   •Determine how long the assigned reading 
    is
    ▫Thus how much time and energy you are 
     going to spend on it
   •What do headings, abstract, or other 
    introductory material tell you?