Before you begin reading the text, preview it by gathering important information about it. (CRITICAL REVIEWING STRATEGIES)
2. Annotating It involves highlighting or making notes of important ideas in the text.
Contextualizing You consider the historical, cultural, or biographical context of the text.
Outlining and summarizing the text help you identify the main ideas in the text and express them again in your own words.
Outlining Helps you understand how the author developed the text through the ideas presented.
Summarizing Allows you to present your understanding of the text by reviewing and synthesizing important ideas, then restating them in your own words.
Analyzing Deals with examining the information presented to support the author’s argument(s)
Re-reading Requires repeated perusal of the text to enable readers to improve their comprehension of the text and to identify ideas that they may not have noticed in initial reading.
Responding It means drawing meaning from what you have read and presenting it in writing or talking about it to others.
Theclone It is the direct copy and paste of someone else’s work without including any of you own writing. (Type of plagiarism)
The mash-up Some of the work is originally cited, but other parts are copied from one or more sources without using quotation marks or citation. (Types of plagiarism)
Find and Replace Parts of the text are copied from the internet, and certain words and phrases have been changed to make the passages sound different. (Type of plagiarism)
The recycler Submitting work you did for one class to a different one, or directly reusing your old work for a new assignment. (Type of plagiarism)
The 404 error All copied text is cited, but some citations are inaccurate or leading to non-existent sources. (Type or plagiarism)