Using your reading -- Introduction to part A: key points for reading -- How do you decide what to read -- How do you understand and question what you read? -- What should you write down? -- Why and how should you quote? -- Why and how should you use your own words? -- Why and how should you summaries? -- Putting it all together in your essay -- Words and phrases to use -- Introducing your topic, aims and ideas -- Verbs for introducing and discussing your reading -- Describing cause and effect, change and data -- Comparing the views of different authors -- Evaluating and discussing your reading -- Informal words and phrases not to use -- Checking your work for mistakes -- Mistakes with in-essay references -- Being too general of unclear -- Missing words and extra words

1. Reading