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Four students sit around a book and discuss its contents

Active Reading Notes & Purpose Statement

Scott Diesenhaus

Whether teaching literature or rhetoric, close reading is an essential and often difficult skill to teach. This note-taking system, which is a modification of the Cornell note system, helps students slow down and examine a text closely through a structured approach that requires them to summarize...

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