Tenth Lesson

Reading as the part of writing

Reading is an integral part of the whole writing process. There are different important points regarding reading a good material that is relevant to you writing. One of them is Approaching reading.

Approaching reading

With academic writing, it is necessary to maintain a constant grip on what the another is saying. The list below gives you a few a ideas about what may be important, but you will probably want to add to it or modify it to decide what would be the best for you.

• Try to set aside reading time when you will not be interrupted. 

• Try to find a physical environment that is conducive to reading: perhaps at home or may be in the university library.

• Make sure before you start reading, that you have all the things you might want to use for taking notes and highlighting: A4 Paper, index cards, different coloured pens perhaps a laptop computer.

• Make sure that you are comfortable and can write notes from your reading without feeling cramped.

• Take frequent short breaks and during this time try to digest what you have read.

• Don't except to be able to make any useful sense of your reading if you are tired, stressed or constantly interrupted.