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Reading a Paper Without Drowning

Academic writing is dense on purpose. There is an order that makes it tractable.

4 lessons, about 13 minutes in total. Nothing here is timed. Finish the course check and you earn the Close Read seal.

1. 1. Three passes, not one
2. 2. What each section is actually for
3. 3. Finding the claim, then the evidence for it
4. 4. Deciding it is not worth finishing
5. Course check · 3 questions

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