DURING READING

Reported by: Alain Kyle Ongcal

Ryan Cutamora
Jerald Escasura
Annotate important parts of
the text.
 Annotating the text can
help you determine
essential ideas or
information, main idea or
arguments, and new
information or ideas. Here
are some data to annotate a
text.
• Write key words or phrases on
the margin in bullet form.
• Write something on the page
margins where important
information is found.
• Write brief notes on the
margins.
• Write questions on
information that you find
confusing.
• Write the limitations of the
author's arguments.
• Write notes on the reliability of
the text.
• Comment on the author's biases.
• Use a concept map or any graphic
organizer to note down the ideas
being explained.
• React on the arguments presented
in the text.
• Underline important words,
phrases, or sentences.
• Underline or circle meanings or
definitions.
• Mark or highlight
relevant/essential parts of the
text.
• Use the headings and transition
words to identify relationships
in the text.
• Create a bank of unfamiliar or
technical words to be defined
later.
• Synthesize author's arguments
at the end of chapter or
section.
• Determine the main idea of the
text.
• Identify the evidence or
supporting arguments
presented by the author and
check their validity and
relevance.