This is all pretty basic stuff, but if you're the sort of person who reads by starting with the first sentence and continuing until you get to the last sentence, hoping against hope that you remember some of the content in between, then this guide is for you. This article calls it 'active reading' - I think of it as 'reading analytically'. When you understand that text isn't just 'stories', that it's a complex multi-dimensional artifact, you begin to understand what's actually going on in writing, and (perhaps) in the mind of the person who wrote the text. It's how I regard just about any text I encounter (OLDaily exists because of my practice of paraphrasing anything I read).
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