Working on Improvements to Reading and Writing on Environmental Health

I am currently working through both goal-setting and various strategies for improving reading and writing on environmental health.  First, I created a series of questions to answer about an article that I read, then I answered them.  This was illuminating.  When I devise the questions and answer them specifically, I am much more thorough, than when I write to simply post a brief summary of what I think is the critical information from the reading.