For short tutorials that guide students on how to read academic and/or complex texts, visit Excelsior's Online Reading Lab. Each module covers an important aspect of reading (previewing, questioning, annotating, paraphrasing) and offers strategies to deepen reading comprehension.
In addition, this activity asks students to apply critical reading annotation techniques in order to develop a deeper understanding of an academic text.
Materials: Critical Reading Annotation Exercise-Instructions for Faculty (handout), Critical Reading Annotation-Instructions for Students, academic texts to be analyzed
Time: a single class period with additional practice throughout the course
Critical Reading Annotation Exercise by Linda Miles is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
This lesson is designed to help students understand the importance of citing resources. The lessons and handout will help students learn how to use in-text citations, both quoting and paraphrasing, and will help them create a reference page.
Some classes use MLA citaion format, some use APA, and some use Chicago. How do you keep track of all the rules for all these formats? You don't need to memorize the details of different citation formats. You just need to know how to look up the guidelines and follow the rules. This slide deck breaks down the details to make it easier to follow formatting guides.
