Critical Reading: Tips and Tools to Aid Reading Comprehension

This guide contains tools to help students navigate complex articles or textbooks, for increased comprehension.

• Critical Reading
  • Skimming and Scanning
• Breaking an Article into Pieces
• The Structured Abstract
  • useful for empirical, data-based papers, like in psychology
• The Meta-Cognition Pyramid
  • useful for theoretical papers, like in philosophy
• Film Analysis Tools
• Resources from CofC and more