Chapter 4 discusses reading critically and goes into how reading critically differs from evaluating, how using your research question can hep you read critically, how to read with an attitude, strategies to read actively, how to pay attention as you read and how many times you should read a given source. All of these things add up to knowing your information you will be discussing you your paper. Without doing these key things your paper will sound scrambled and all over the place. Reading critically is to help you as a reader make sense of the information being provided. Your research question is designed to narrow your focus on your issue and makes it less broad. Reading with a attitude is meant to help you keep your mind on the prize. You know what you need/want and reading with that kind of mindset will help you achieve that. Strategies to help you read actively are identify key information, ideas and arguments, write down questions as they occur, write down your reactions to what was being said from information, ideas and arguments, record quotations that could be useful, take notes on how you can use the information in your paper, link other sources together and lastly highlight important passages. Paying attention to what you are reading can be hard sometimes. Especially when everything being said sounds like its on repeat. To help you stay engaged to what you are reading try and think of ways this article can benefit your paper or not. Lastly when reading your sources you should use the three-pass approach. This uses these three steps, 1. Skim the source.
2. Read actively.
3. Reread passages that were promising or hard to understand.
All of these ideas will help you better read your sources and benefit you with your paper since you will better be prepared on your topic.
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