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Lawyers and Literature The Good Reader "In general, good readers enter the reading process with certain assumptions: that what they read will be connected into a coherent whole, that it will contain 'layers of meaning,' that the ideas being read are connected to other ides they have previously encountered and are relevant to them personally. Before they begin, good readers inspect what they are to read, noting such aspects as the title, author, and chapters; then they place this reading into a category. As they read, they ask questions, note interesting features of the text, and draw on their experience as a reader. Additionally, they attend to author/reader relationships, monitor their reading processes, evaluate the significance of what they are reading, rethink past decisions, and hypothesize alternative interpretations. These processes used by good readers imply that much 'reading' time is spent reflection . . . ." [Sally Rings, The Role of Computer Technology in Teaching Critical Reading <http://hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/critR/ index.html> (visited January 1, 2000)]
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