Remember that incoherence is also a possibility.
There is nothing wrong with not understanding your reading! Probably the most important statement of this whole article.
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Moments when a scholar refers directly to the work of another scholar are important in understanding the central questions at stake.
Is this something that will always come up?
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primary and secondary sources — are the building blocks of historical arguments.
How are we going to be able to tell the difference between the two when we are reading?
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When reading, try to identify how topic sentences support the larger argument
Keeping the intro to the paragraph in your head while reading keeps you more focused because you can start to connect the dots on where the author is leading you to.
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When reading, try to determine why the author has spent time writing each paragraph
If the author writes a long paragraph, versus a shorter one, he is trying to make a major point.
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