Lesson 1: Critical Reading and Summary Writing—Foundations for Course Success
Objectives
- Identify strategies that good readers use to get the most out of their reading and practice these strategies with the assigned reading.
- Demonstrate your understanding of both the content and the craft of the assigned reading.
- Develop a written summary of the assigned text that is complete, accurate, organized, brief, coherent, and original.
- Learn the basics of attribution and parenthetical documentation in order to signal that the ideas in your summary come from a source and are not your own.
