Elaborative Interrogation: Asking Why About the Material
5 learning units · ~18 minutes
How to work through your material with why-questions: for every important statement, ask “Why is this so?” and answer from what you already know. Then come the sharper questions “Why not otherwise?” and “In what case does this not hold?” and the step you never skip: checking whether your reasoning holds up.
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Contents
The Method
- Why-Questions About the Material · approx. 4 min
- Good and Bad Why-Questions · approx. 4 min
In Practice
- Building Elaboration into Your Reading · approx. 3 min
- When the Answer Is Wrong · approx. 3 min
- From Interrogating to Explaining · approx. 4 min