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Since using the Journal made this something of an in-house announcement, for "considering" one might better read "actively planning".
They practice fact checking, assess their own ability to read actively and skeptically, and write memos that educate others on how to do so.
Watch TV and read "actively".
Others will be helpful to a scientist pressed into service in a first-year seminar or general education course (e.g., facilitating discussion and teaching students to read actively).
Exercises of this sort challenge students to read actively and seek key missing information (e.g., "How many female vs. male babies were studied?" or "Exactly how was the visual training done?") that is essential to their evaluations.
On the SAAB survey, freshmen reported significant gains in their self-rated ability to: "decode" primary literature; interpret data; read actively (annotating, concept mapping and/or cartooning the material they were reading); visualize scientific procedures; feel like they were thinking like scientists; and see experiments in a broader context (Table 3).
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She reads actively about automotive trends.
When one reads actively, whether using the eyes or a finger, one is free to skip ahead or back, to reread, to ponder or daydream in the middle of a sentence — one reads in one's own time.
For homework, students try out Willis's advice and draw on their class activities and discussion to write a one-page memo that aims to educate their peers to act as everyday, if informal, fact checkers, reading actively and skeptically.
He devotes many pages to establishing the American literature that may have influenced "Lolita," mentioning, puzzlingly, several established classics, including "Moby-Dick" and the novels of William Faulkner, that Nabokov either explicitly said that he didn't read or actively disliked.
Even history, which seems obviously about the past, has its true use, Emerson holds, as the servant of the present: "The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary" (CW2: 5).
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