How to pick apart a reading

Thank goodness I read this before beginning my rhetorical analysis writing. This reading was definitely helpful in every way. First of all, it gave me great ideas on how to get started as I begin reading what I will be writing my rhetorical analysis on. I best liked the idea of skimming through the text, only reading the beginning and end paragraphs, beginning to middle paragraphs, titles, headings, etc. THEN, going back and reading the actual paper. I also really liked the annotating idea. I often do this when reading chapters for my classes. I make note of things in the margins (very helpful to come back to) and underline important information. I will most definitely do this when I read through my reading for my paper.
This reading also gave many ideas for organizing ideas so that I can best get information out of my reading. The thing that it suggested that I do most often now is an outline. Usually, I use an outline for my paper before I begin writing it, but I liked that this reading suggested to outline the actual reading before writing anything else. This is helpful to not only understand the main idea of what the paper is about, but to also get the smaller ideas throughout each paragraph that are easy to forget once the whole paper is read.