We want to reiterate that you don’t need to understand absolutely everything you read – especially at first! With that in mind, it’s worth keeping an eye on what it is you’re looking for in a text. Academic texts can be extremely intricate pieces of writing. This often means that there is a lot of information within them. If you are just looking for a conclusion to an article in a hurry you can skip past the less relevant bits if you know you don’t need them.

Sticky notes in different colours Moreover, it can be easy to get bogged down in academic texts. So remember what it is you want to learn about. Some students find it helpful to stick a post-it-note with the main themes they are interested in nearby so they don’t lose track.

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