Active Reading Strategies, Mind Tools Reading Techniques

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- When you're reading a document or book
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Do you read as efficiently as you could? Use these strategies to get the most from your reading.
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Jacob King
This resource is a web page that goes through a step-by-step process for being able to read more competently and with better efficiency. Conveniently, it also includes strategies for other tools that students will need in the classroom, such as project management and stress tools.

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- Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you're reading it. Are you reading with a purpose, or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after you've read it?
- For example, with a book, an easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know who the book is intended for, and what it covers. Chapter headings will give you an overall view of the structure of the subject.
- If you need a moderate level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text. This is when you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You can then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words and concepts. (When looking at material in this way, it's often worth paying attention to diagrams and graphs.)
- when you need full knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text in detail. Here it's best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject. This gives you an understanding of its structure, into which you can then fit the detail gained from a full
- is a good technique for getting a deep understanding of a text.)
- (SQ3R
- reading of the material.
- When you're reading a document or book in detail, it helps if you practice "active reading" by highlighting and underlining key information, and
- taking notes
- as you progress.
- This emphasizes information in your mind, and helps you to review important points later.
- Doing this also helps you keep your mind focused on the material, and stops you thinking about other things.
- Different types of documents hold information in different places and in different ways, and they have different depths and breadths of coverage.
  
  By understanding the layout of the material you're reading, you can extract the information you want efficiently
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Dilly B
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- Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you're reading it. Are you reading with a purpose, or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after you've read it?
  
  Once you know your purpose, you can examine the resource to see whether it's going to help you.
- Ask yourself whether the resource meets your needs, and try to work out if it will give you the right amount of knowledge. If you think that the resource isn't ideal, don't waste time reading it.
- Only when you need full knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text in detail. Here it's best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject.
- When you're reading a document or book in detail, it helps if you practice "active reading" by highlighting and underlining key information, and taking notes as you progress.
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09 Aug 13

lili lulu
- Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you're reading it. Are you reading with a purpose, or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after you've read it?
  
  Once you know your purpose, you can examine the resource to see whether it's going to help you.
  
  For example, with a book, an easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know who the book is intended for, and what it covers. Chapter headings will give you an overall view of the structure of the subject.
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Shelley Hourston
Learn how to read more effectively, with our article: http://t.co/rLGgFrXL5n

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- Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you're reading it. Are you reading with a purpose, or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after you've read it?
  
  Once you know your purpose, you can examine the resource to see whether it's going to help you.
  
  For example, with a book, an easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know who the book is intended for, and what it covers. Chapter headings will give you an overall view of the structure of the subject.
  
  Ask yourself whether the resource meets your needs, and try to work out if it will give you the right amount of knowledge. If you think that the resource isn't ideal, don't waste time reading it.
- Know How Deeply to Study the Material
  
  Where you only need the shallowest knowledge of a subject, you can skim material. Here you read only chapter headings, introductions, and summaries.
  
  If you need a moderate level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text. This is when you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You can then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words and concepts. (When looking at material in this way, it's often worth paying attention to diagrams and graphs.)
  
  Only when you need full knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text in detail. Here it's best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject. This gives you an understanding of its structure, into which you can then fit the detail gained from a full reading of the material. (SQ3R is a good technique for getting a deep understanding of a text.)
- Read Actively
  
  When you're reading a document or book in detail, it helps if you practice "active reading" by highlighting and underlining key information, and taking notes (member-only article) as you progress. (Mind Maps are great for this). This emphasizes information in your mind, and helps you to review important points later.
- Know How to Study Different Types of Material
  
  Different types of documents hold information in different places and in different ways, and they have different depths and breadths of coverage.
  
  By understanding the layout of the material you're reading, you can extract the information you want efficiently.
- The most effective way of getting information from magazines is to scan the contents tables or indexes and turn directly to interesting articles. If you find an article useful, then cut it out and file it in a folder specifically covering that sort of information. In this way you will build up sets of related articles that may begin to explain the subject.
  
  Newspapers tend to be arranged in sections. If you read a paper often, you can quickly learn which sections are useful, and which ones you can skip altogether.
  
   
  
  Tip:
  You can apply the same strategies to reading online versions of newspapers and magazines. However, you need to make sure that you don't get distracted by links to other, non-relevant material..
  
   
- There are three main types of article in magazines and newspapers:
  
  News Articles - these are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh these out with detail. So, the most important information is presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses.
  
  Opinion Articles - these present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments.
  
  Feature Articles - these are written to provide entertainment or background on a subject. Typically the most important information is in the body of the text.
  
  If you know what you want from an article, and recognize its type, you can get information from it quickly and efficiently.
- Tip 1:
  Nowadays, you probably read many articles online. You can easily save links to these in a bookmark folder to reference later. Make sure that you title folders so that you can easily find the link again. For instance, you could have separate folders for project research, marketing, client prospects, trade information, and professional growth. Or, it might be helpful to title folders using the website or publication name.
  
  Tip 2:
  Remember that there are many online articles and electronic documents that weren't originally designed to be read on a screen. (This will also include documents that are emailed to you.) If you find it hard to read these on screen, print them out. This is especially important for long or detailed documents.
- Make Your Own Table of Contents
  
  When you're reading a document or book, it's easy to accept the writer's structure of thought. This means that you may not notice when important information has been left out, or that an irrelevant detail has been included.
  
  An effective way to combat this is to make up your own table of contents before you start reading. Ask yourself what sections or topics you are expecting to see in this document, and what questions you want to have answered by the end of the text.
  
  Although doing this before you start reading the document may sound like a strange strategy, it's useful, because it helps you spot holes in the author's argument. Writing out your own table of contents also helps you address your own questions, and think about what you're expecting to learn from the text.
- Use Glossaries with Technical Documents
  
  If you're reading large amounts of difficult technical material, it may be useful to use or compile a glossary. Keep this beside you as you read.
  
  It's also useful to note down the key concepts in your own words, and refer to these when necessary.
- Further Reading Tips
  
  The time when you read a document plays a role in how easy the reading will be, and how much information you'll retain.
  
  If you need to read a text that is tedious, or requires a great deal of concentration, it's best to tackle it when you have the most energy in the day. Our article, Is This a Morning Task?, (member-only article), helps you work out when this is, so that you can schedule your reading time accordingly.
  
  Where you read is also important. Reading at night, in bed, doesn't work for many people because it makes them sleepy (which means that you may not remember the information). Everyone is different, however, so read in a place that's comfortable, free of distractions, and that has good light - this is important even if you're reading from a screen.
  
  It can be helpful to review the information when you've finished reading. When you're done, write a paragraph that explains, in your own words, what you just learned. Often, putting pen to paper can help strengthen your recall of new information, so that you retain it more effectively.
- Key Points
  
  If you want to read more effectively, identify what you want to learn from each resource you read, and know how deeply you want to study the material. And, consider "active reading" by making notes and marking-up the material as you go along. It's also useful to know how to study different types of material.
  
  Making your own table of contents before you read material, and using glossaries for technical resources, are other useful reading strategies.
  
  Remember that it takes practice to develop your reading skills - the more you use these strategies, the more effective you'll become.
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11 Apr 13

Kendra Dexter
Here's a good article about Reading Strategies http://t.co/1dWcvJp2lU Hope you enjoy it! #eng438 @Mind_Tools

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15 Feb 13

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- Reading Strategies
- Think About What You Want to Know
- a book, an easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings.
- Know How Deeply to Study the Material
- you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail
- Read Actively
- Tip:
  If you're worried about damaging a book by marking it up, ask yourself how much your investment of time is worth. If the book is inexpensive, or if the benefit that you get from the book substantially exceeds its value, then don't worry too much about marking it. (Of course, only do this if it belongs to you!)
  
   
- Magazines and Newspapers
- You can apply the same strategies to reading online versions of newspapers and magazines. However, you need to make sure that you don't get distracted by links to other, non-relevant material..
- - these present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments.
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Charli Kuehl
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- Reading Strategies
- What You Want to Know
- Chapter headings
- Ask yourself
- don't waste time
- How Deeply
- shallowest knowledge
- headings, introductions, and summaries.
- moderate level
- speed read
- key words
- picking out
- worth studying
- need full knowledge
- in detail
- skim the material
- understanding of its structure
- full reading
- (SQ3R
- Actively
- taking notes
- Mind Maps
- review important points
- Different Types
- ways,
- places
- Different types
- depths and breadths
- efficiently
- Magazines and Newspapers
- most interesting and glamorous parts
- ignore less interesting
- interesting articles
- file it
- a folder
- arranged in sections
- Newspapers
- three main types
- important
- Opinion Articles
- point of view
- most important
- introduction and the summary,
- supporting arguments
- Feature Articles
- in the body
- get information
- what you want
- quickly and efficiently
- Tip 1:
- save links
- title folders
- website or publication name.
- professional growth
- detailed documents.
- Own Table of Contents
- Ask yourself
- what sections
- want to have answered
- helps
- spot holes
- the author's argument
- address
- think
- own table of contents
- Technical Documents
- difficult technical material
- compile a glossary
- key concepts
- refer to these
- when you have the most energy
- schedule your reading time accordingly
- comfortable
- free of distractions
- own words
- write a paragraph
- identify
- each resource you read
- know how deeply
- study
- active reading
- takes practice
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Deanna Casiano
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Carlos Gomez
- Make Your Own Table of Contents
- An effective way to combat this is to make up your own table of contents before you start reading. Ask yourself what sections or topics you are expecting to see in this document, and what questions you want to have answered by the end of the text.
- If you're reading large amounts of difficult technical material, it may be useful to use or compile a glossary. Keep this beside you as you read
- It's also useful to note down the key concepts in your own words, and refer to these when necessary.
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I think this page gives us a lot important and useful information becaouse here we can find some tips to improve our reading skill, also what kind of material we have to use to do it

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- most of us read regularly as part of our jobs, and to develop our skills and knowledge.
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- ask yourself why you're reading it.
- What do you want to know after you've read it?
- ook at the introduction and the chapter headings.
- Ask yourself whether the resource meets your needs
- skim material.
- hapter headings, introductions, and summaries
- scan the text.
- hapter introductions and summaries in detail.
- picking out and understanding key words and concepts.
- speed read
- SQ3R is a good technique for getting a deep understanding of a text.
- Read Actively
- active reading" by highlighting and underlining key information
- taking notes
- as you progress.
- Doing this also helps you keep your mind focused on the material, and stops you thinking about other things.
- Make Your Own Table of Contents
- Ask yourself what sections or topics you are expecting to see in this document, and what questions you want to have answered by the end of the text.
- review the information when you've finished reading
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(SQ3R is a good technique for getting a deep understanding of a text.)

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reading strategies
- Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you're reading it. Are you reading with a purpose, or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after you've read it?
- WWhere you only need the shallowest knowledge of a subject, you can skim material. Here you read only chapter headings, introductions, and summaries.
  
  If you need a moderate level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text. This is when you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You can then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words and concepts. (When looking at material in this way, it's often worth paying attention to diagrams and graphs.)
- Only when you need full knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text in detail. Here it's best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject
- active reading" by highlighting and underlining key information, and taking notes (member-only article) as you progress
- Magazines and Newspapers
- scan the contents tables or indexes and turn directly to interesting articles.
- Individual Articles
- News Articles - these are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh these out with detail. So, the most important information is
- presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses
- Ask yourself what sections or topics you are expecting to see in this document, and what questions you want to have answered by the end of the text
- helps you spot holes in the author's argument
- you need to read a text that is tedious, or requires a great deal of concentration, it's best to tackle it when you have the most energy in the day
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20 Feb 11

elena korol
Do you know what to read & how to do this? Reading skills observation can help you. Here you can also find tips on acquiring various learning & social skills like "Project management" or "Career skills" etc.
15 Feb 11

Dana Fineman
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- Strategy 1: Knowing what you want to know
- An easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know at whom the book is targeted, and what it seeks to achieve. Chapter headings will give you an overall view of the structure of the subject.
- Strategy 2: Knowing how deeply to study the material
- Where you only need the shallowest knowledge of the subject, you can skim material. Here you read only chapter headings, introductions and summaries.
- Here you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You may then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words and concepts.
- Strategy 3: Active Reading
- When you are reading a document in detail, it often helps if you highlight, underline and annotate it as you go on.
- You can then read and mark the photocopies.
- . You can then read and mark the photocopies.
- Strategy 4: How to study different sorts of material
- Reading Magazines and Newspapers:
- Reading Individual Articles
- News Articles:
  Here the most important information is presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses. News articles are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh them out with detail.
  
  Opinion Articles:
  Opinion articles present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments.
  
  Feature Articles:
  These are written to provide entertainment or background on a subject. Typically the most important information is in the body of the text.
- Strategy 5: Reading 'whole subject' documents
- Strategy 6: Using glossaries with technical documents
- Key Points
  
  This section shows 6 different strategies and techniques that you can use to read more effectively.
  
  These are:
  
  Knowing what you need to know, and reading appropriately.
  
  Knowing how deeply to read the document: skimming, scanning or studying.
  
  Using active reading techniques to pick out key points and keep your mind focused on the material.
  
  Using the table of contents for reading magazines and newspapers, and clipping useful articles.
  
  Understanding how to extract information from different article types.
  
  Creating your own table of contents for reviewing material.
  
  Using indexes, tables of contents, and glossaries to help you assimilate technical information.
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- What do you want to know after reading it?
- An easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know at whom the book is targeted, and what it seeks to achieve. Chapter headings will give you an overall view of the structure of the subject.
- If you need a moderate level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text.
- Only when you need detailed knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text.
- When you are reading a document in detail, it often helps if you highlight, underline and annotate it as you go on
- Doing this also helps to keep your mind focused on the material and stops it wandering.
- If the benefit you get by active reading reasonably exceeds the value of the book, then the book is disposable.
- If you find an article useful, then cut it out and file it in a folder specifically covering that sort of information. In this way you will build up sets of related articles that may begin to explain the subject.
- News articles are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh them out with detail.
- A good way of recognizing this is to compile your own table of contents before you open the document. You can then use this table of contents to read the document in the order that you want. You will be able to spot omissions quickly.
- it may be useful to photocopy or compile a glossary. Keep this beside you as you read. It will probably also be useful to note down the key concepts in your own words, and refer to them when necessary.
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Chris Minikus
- The first thing to ask yourself is: Why you are reading the text? Are you reading with a purpose or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after reading it?
- If the book isn't ideal, would it be better to find a better one?
- If you need a moderate level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text. Here you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You may then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words and concepts.
- When you are reading a document in detail, it often helps if you highlight, underline and annotate it as you go on
- more expensive texts. You can then read and mark the photocopies.
  
  If you are worried about destroying the material, ask yourself how much your investment of time is worth
- If the benefit you get by active re
- . By understanding the layout of the material you are reading, you can extract useful information much more efficiently.
- The most effective way of getting information from magazines is to scan the contents tables or indexes and turn directly to interesting articles
- When you are reading an important document, it is easy to accept the writer's structure of thought. This can mean that you may not notice that important information has been omitted or that irrelevant detail has been included
- If you are reading large amounts of difficult technical material, it may be useful to photocopy or compile a glossary. Keep this beside you as you read. It will probably also be useful to note down the key concepts in your own words, and refer to them when necessary.
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Liz L
reading strategies
- The first thing to ask yourself is: Why you are reading the text?
- Once you know this, you can examine the text to see whether it is going to move you towards this goal.
- An easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know at whom the book is targeted, and wh
- at it seeks to achieve. Chapter headings will give you an overall view of the structure of the subject.
- Ask yourself whether the book meets your needs.
- Here you read only chapter headings, introductions and summaries.
- moderate level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text. Here you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail
- You may then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words
- and concepts. At this level of looking at the document it is worth paying attention to diagrams and graphs
- best to skim the material first to get an overview
- of the subject.
- This gives you an understanding of its structure, into which you can fit the detail gained from a full reading of the material. SQ3R is a good technique for getting a deep understanding of a text.
- it often helps if you highlight, underline and annotate it as you go on
- emphasizes information in your mind,
- Doing this also helps to keep your mind focused on the material and stops it wandering.
- By understanding the layout of the material you are reading, you can extract useful information much more efficiently.
- give a very fragmented coverage of an area
- most effective way of getting information from magazines is to scan the contents tables or indexes and turn directly to interesting articles.
- most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with
- most important information is in the body of the text.
- you may not notice that important information has been omitted or that irrelevant detail has been included
- compile your own table of contents before you open the document
- large amounts of difficult technical material, it may be useful to photocopy or compile a glossary.
- Knowing what you need to know, and reading appropriately.
  
  Knowing how deeply to read the document: skimming, scanning or studying.
  
  Using active reading techniques to pick out key points and keep your mind focused on the material.
  
  Using the table of contents for reading magazines and newspapers, and clipping useful articles.
  
  Understanding how to extract information from different article types.
  
  Creating your own table of contents for reviewing material.
  
  Using indexes, tables of contents, and glossaries to help
- you assimilate technical information.
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- The first thing to ask yourself is: Why you are reading the text?
- Knowing how deeply to study the material
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- Ask yourself whether the book meets your needs. Ask yourself if it assumes too much or too little knowledge. If the book isn't ideal, would it be better to find a better one?
- Only when you need detailed knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text. Here it is best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject. This gives you an understanding of its structure, into which you can fit the detail gained from a full, receptive reading of the material. SQ3R is a good technique for getting a deep understanding of a text.
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Article that describes six strategies for reading comprehension

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This website offers you reading strategies to use where your students can get the most of what they are learning but you as a teacher do not have to spend much time preparing.

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- News Articles:
  Here the most important information is presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses. News articles are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh them out with detail.
  Opinion Articles:
  Opinion articles present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments.
  Feature Articles:
  These are written to provide entertainment or background on a subject. Typically the most important information is in the body of the text.
- News Articles:
  Here the most important information is presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses. News articles are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh them out with detail.
  Opinion Articles:
  Opinion articles present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments.
  Feature Articles:
  These are written to provide entertainment or background on a subject. Typically the most important information is in the body of the text.
- News Articles:
  Here the most important information is presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses. News articles are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh them out with detail.
  Opinion Articles:
  Opinion articles present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments.
  Feature Articles:
  These are written to provide entertainment or background on a subject. Typically the most important information is in the body of the text.
- News Articles:
  Here the most important information is presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses. News articles are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh them out with detail.
  Opinion Articles:
  Opinion articles present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments.
  Feature Articles:
  These are written to provide entertainment or background on a subject. Typically the most important information is in the body of the text.
- of thought. This can mean that you may not notice that important information has been omitted or that irrelevant detail has been included. A good way of recognizing this is to compile your own table of contents before you open the document. Yo
- News Articles:
  Here the most important information is presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses. News articles are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh them out with detail.
  Opinion Articles:
  Opinion articles present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments.
  Feature Articles:
  These are written to provide entertainment or background on a subject. Typically the most important information is in the body of the text.
- st thing to ask yourself is: Why you are reading the text? Are you reading with a purpose or just for pleasure? What do yo
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Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently
Good reading strategies help you to read in a very efficient way. Using them, you aim to get the maximum benefit from your reading with the minimum effort. This section will show you how to use six different strategies to read

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This site gives you some helpful techniques when first encountering a text. Know what you want to learn from the text, only go as deep as is required, take notes and highlight areas, etc. Helps you come at the text from a standpoint that will benefit your learning.

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- highlight, underline and annotate it as you go on.
- compile your own table of contents before you open the document.
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Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently

Good reading strategies help you to read in a very efficient way. Using them, you aim to get the maximum benefit from your reading with the minimum effort. This section will show you how to use six different strategies to read intelligently.

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