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__**A. Why Previewing? **__ 1) Previewing promotes ‘eustress; or positive stress (like athletes and musicians have). It is a “brain-friendly” strategy because it builds on the theory that learning involves ‘adding’ new info to Prior Knowledge in meaningful ways 2) It helps to manage overwhelming amounts of reading 3) It helps you to be ready for class even when you’re behind the syllabus 4) balances the need to annotate with time restrictions 5) it removes a lot of stressful, time-consuming guess work—you already know how the text ‘ends’, how the author organizes her text, etc. __** B. Some of Erin’s Previewing Axioms **__ 1. “Plan to read an assigned text more than once but never the same way twice.” 2. “Start with smallest units of text(titles, subheadings, intro and conclusion), then gradually move to larger units(body paragraphs).” 3. “Try to get as much meaningful info as possible from the smaller units of text.” 4. “Tackle and Make Notes as soon as you start previewing.” 5. “It’s never too early or too late to take & make notes.” 6. “Use previewing to handle all the assigned reading and Murphy’s Law.”
 * //Introduction to Active, Careful Reading: previewing, planning, predicting //**

1. there is no single correct way (that’s why it is like a jigsaw puzzle) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. each reader experiments, monitors and learns how to preview texts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Previewing is an active reading process that consists of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Forming a big picture of the text’s organization, main ideas and purpose before reading the entire text <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. This kind of big picture helps to more quickly and accurately because it removes the guess work—you already know how the text ‘ends’ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 3. Reading backwards – find out how it ends before reading the main body of text <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. and looking before reading <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. reading as if you’re solving a jigsaw puzzle or riddle <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. How long is the assigned text? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. How familiar am I with the topic, format, main ideas of the text <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. How much time do I have before I have to demonstrate knowledge of the text? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How will I be asked to demonstrate the knowledge (multiple choice, essay, etc.?) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. What am I expected to memorize? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 6. Am I expected to remember? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. How does it connect to the course so far? 8. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> How is the text organized? (e.g., chronological, problem solution)
 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">C.Previewing Methods(supposed to’s) __**
 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D. Criteria & Decision-making: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> to be in the driver’s seat, you need to gather some data __**