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 Re: مهارات أكاديمية / كتابة بحوث - قراءة - تقديم عروض - إلخ (Re: طارق عمر مكاوي)
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[left]Speed reading
Speed reading is using simple techniques to help you read faster and gain an
overview of an entire book, paper or journal article in a short amount of time.
Most people read approximately 277 words per minute. Using speed reading
techniques you can increase this to 744 words per minutes or more!
Speed reading is a useful technique to master, particularly for the times when
you are faced with a mountain of reading and are not sure where to start! By
gaining an overview of each text, you will be able to make an informed
decision about which texts to concentrate on and read more thoroughly, and
which ones are not so important. This, in turn, means you use your time more
effectively.
How do I learn to speed read?
This handout will give you some of the key tools and techniques that you need
to speed read. It is recommended that you practise them to make them feel
natural. Practising the techniques for about 15 minutes a day for 6 weeks or
so will be enough to embed the techniques and make them second-nature.
Speed Reading Techniques
1. Chunking
Reading one word at a time slows you down
Reading a phrase at a time is very easy
Most people read one word at a time. This guarantees understanding but is
slow. Reading one word at a time quickly often results in understanding being
lost.
The solution is to 'chunk' the text into blocks and read a phrase at a time
instead of single words. This is actually very simple - the English language is
made up of phrases, many of which repeat themselves. In your field of study,
there are probably lots of phrases that are often used and that over time, you
will become familiar with, therefore it makes sense to read these phrases in
chunk rather than single words.
2. Pacers
Eye muscles move in a much smoother way when they have something to
follow. Smooth movement of the eyes will enable you to read faster, therefore
to increase your reading speed, it’s helpful to give your eyes something to
follow as they read down the page - a guide or a pacer.
Suitable pacers are: bookmarks; rulers; pencils; fingers; and hands. When
using a pacer you can follow either ahead, behind, underneath of above the
pacer. Many people go either ahead or underneath.
Pacer tips:
Try different pacers until you find the one you are comfortable with.
Try out your preferred choice of pacer with each hand.
Try to keep an even motion across the page - don't pause or stop.
Some Pacing Techniques:
• Guide pacer across the page in an 's' shape
• Guide pacer across the page in a 'z' shape
• Pull pacer down the page vertically
3. Reading Strategy
In order to successfully gain an overview of the text you are reading, you need
a reading strategy - what are you trying to get out of the book?
A successful strategy that you can use is:
1. Write objectives for reading the material - why are you reading this book?
What do you want to know?
2. Read the introduction
3. Read the summary/conclusion
4. For journal articles – read the ‘abstract’.
5. Scan over every page for about 2 seconds - be disciplined! Pay attention
to diagrams, bullet points - a picture can tell a thousand words.
6. Revisit your objective - what don't you need to read? Which part/chapter is
most important?
7. Speed read the relevant sections
8. If you have met your objective, stop. If not, take a break.
9. Repeat the steps if necessary
By following these steps you should be able to get an overview of the
book/paper in a short amount of time, and then go back and focus on the
sections that are useful to you in more detail.
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