Step 2: Preview

Depending on the book’s layout, in this step you read the first and last paragraphs of each section of a chapter and add any extracted material to your Mind Map. There’s no fixed procedure here. It also depends to a certain extent on the kind of book and its layout. It’s sometimes useful to read the first and last paragraphs and can occasionally be helpful to read the first and last sentences of each paragraph too.

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