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Suggestions on how to get motivated towards a reading session. How to use critical theory to approach literature. What is the drawing factor to some authors and not others.

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Reading Motivation tips are embedded. The expert determines what are the drawing factors to some authors and not others.

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One suggestion is to apply your own life as a reader into the themes, plot, characters, or biographical background of the author. If you are reading about the Holocaust and you have been discriminated against because of your own race, you can then find more motivation within this theme.
Do you see what I mean?

Another way to become more motivated as an active reader is to brainstorm what you already know ...

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