{"id":428,"date":"2022-03-17T20:08:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T00:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/?post_type=chapter&p=428"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:10:35","slug":"reading-is-key","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/writingplace\/chapter\/reading-is-key\/","title":{"raw":"Reading is Key","rendered":"Reading is Key"},"content":{"raw":"\"Person<\/a>\r\n\r\nWriting scholar Kenneth Burke (1941) describes the exchange of ideas as entering a never-ending conversation.\r\n\r\nLet\u2019s think about that for a moment. Imagine you enter a friend\u2019s apartment or dorm room and notice an [pb_glossary id=\"1354\"]animated[\/pb_glossary] conversation already underway in the living room. You're curious about it, so you sit down on the couch and listen to what they\u2019re talking about. After a little while, you get a good sense of what they\u2019re talking about and feel like you have something to add. You speak up, offering something new to the conversation. The conversation continues, your contribution taking it in a new direction. One of your friends arrives so you jump up and go over to the kitchen to greet them. The conversation in the living room continues, and in some ways, keeps going even outside of the walls of the apartment or dorm room when the people in the living room leave the party and take that conversation with them into the world.\r\n\r\nI like thinking about scholarly writing like this. Not only does it transform reading into a place of curiosity and opportunity for contribution, but it helps us reflect on the ways that ideas move.\r\n\r\nIn order to enter a research conversation, we have to listen to what\u2019s already being said in that conversation. But how do we learn how to listen attentively? In this chapter, you will discover strategies that will help you read scholarly articles in a way that stimulates not only your comprehension, but also your own critical thinking and engagement.\r\n\r\n \r\n
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