Previewing a reading

The skill of previewing an article is a reading strategy as well as a critical thinking strategy, and it's so important that I'm devoting a whole lecture to it this week.

To preview means to look ahead. In basic terms this means that when you pick up an assigned reading for the course, you look at the title, and read the title, and then you just stop. You stop and think and ask yourself questions that will get your brain working. [6 mins]