Why

This got recommended at the end of Red’s video on how to do research and can be considered part of the same series.

In one paragraph

Academic reading is often boring reading, which is hard. Summaries, audiobooks, and limited or “focused” reading will help you get through a boring book, while annotating it will help you re-find things. Literary analysis accommodates as many meanings as you can sell your audience on. Good project management helps with writing too: schedule abundant time, make a point of taking breaks and revisiting drafts, and seek early feedback. Also texts should flow, try reading your writing aloud.

Table of Contents in the original is embedded as text on the video.

Part 1: Reading
    1.1 Reading for meaning 0:29
    1.2 Getting the Most from Summaries 0:59
    1.3 Reading efficiently 2:44
    1.4 Understanding Content 3:24
    1.5 Sourcing a Thesis 3:53
    1.6 Annotation 4:34

Part 2: Argumentation
    2.1 Relativism 5:16
    2.2 Authorial Intent and You! 6:14
    2.3 Good and Bad Logic 6:49
    2.4 Interpreting a Text 7:24
    2.5 Supporting an Interpretation 7:49
    2.6 Crafting an Argument: Change 8:52

Part 3: Writing
    3.1 Scheduling Your Writing 9:41
    3.2 The Good, the Bad, and the Outline 10:55
    3.3 Writing Lean Essays 11:35
    3.4 Writing Like You Speak 12:37
    3.5 Editing Drafts 13:10
    3.6 In-class Essays 13:55
    3.7 In Videos and Essays, Conclusions are Key 14:54

An alternative outline

Broadly, how this article reads from my perspective.

Prologue 0:00
Introduction 0:20

Part 1: Reading
    1.1 Do not rely on summaries 0:29
    1.2 Academic reading as a skill 1:16
    1.3 Using reading aids
        1.3.1 Summaries, their purpose and mode of employ 1:49
        1.3.2 Audiobooks 2:44
    1.4 Academic reading
        1.4.1 Plot, character, theme, symbolism, style 3:24
        1.4.2 Thesis LAST 3:36
        1.4.3 Reading with a focus 4:01
        1.4.4 Annotation 4:34

Part 2: Argumentation
    2.1 Relativism
        or "Why there are infinitely many right answers" 5:16
    2.2 Evidence: the Foundation of Argumentation 6:31
    2.3 The danger of circular logic 6:49
    2.4 Evidence 2: Electric Boogaloo
        or "Why there are also infinitely many wrong answers" 7:31
    2.5 Annotation revisited 8:32
    2.6 A heuristic for literary analysis: look for change 8:52

Part 3: Writing
    3.1 If you don't write it, it doesn't exist 9:41
    3.2 Schedule your writing 9:48
    3.3 Diminishing returns: why you need breaks 10:15
    3.4 Accountability 10:45
    3.5 Outlines as a trap: Blue's personal journey 10:55
    3.6 Creating flowing prose: speaking aloud 12:37
    3.7 Fail faster!
        or "How to avoid writing your essay twice" 13:28
    3.7 Thinking on your feet: how and why 13:55
    3.8 Do or do not, there is no try 14:54

Highlights

The good, the bad, and the extremely revealing. Direct quotations in no particular order. Some of these ideas may not be discussed at length, but it still seemed worthwhile to put them here.

Summaries

[A summary] gives you a top-down view of the plot roadmap and the important points along the way, so instead of wading through a huge mess of incomprehensibility, you have landmarks to ground yourself by.