Reading & Writing Techniques in Everyday Language

Working With Other People’s Words

• Yield the floor/call up [signal changes in speakers]
• Take a picture [summarize]
• Sample [quote]
• Put another way [paraphrase]
• Riff on [elaborate]
• Paint a picture [describe]
• Frame (verb) [contextualize]
• Shine a spotlight [draw attention to/bring to the foreground]
• Put under a microscope [analyze into components]
• Fill the gaps [infer]
• Connect the dots [interpret/find the pattern and the outliers]
• Mash up [synthesize/blend]
• Remix [extend & change for a new purpose]
• Pull back the curtains [reveal assumptions & values]
• Put to work [apply]
• Build on
• Support
• Follow the map [take an approach]
• Give a name to [categorize]
• Give an example of [instantiate/exemplify]
• Take another side
• Pivot
• Import [to another context]
• Tell us how you really feel
• Judge/Critique/Roast/Clap Back
• Pay your propers/shout out to your people [cite]

Understanding Readings

• Annotate
• Pivot
• Voice