The first phase of the translation process consists of reading the text. Novice translators as well as students of translation are advised to master the basic reading comprehension skills. They should read for gist and main ideas, read for details and identify the meaning of new words and expressions using one or more components of the structural analysis clause; prefixes, roots, word order, punctuation, sentence pattern, etc. They should identify the writer’s style: literary, scientific, technical, informative, persuasive, argumentative, etc. They should also identify the language level used in the text; standard, slang, etc.