trenchfoot
Lifer
jellomancer, this is what i can recall from my speedreading class a long, long time ago:
determine in this order:
1. what the goal of the book is.
2. get a good feel for how the book is organized. ie- how many chapters, what each chapter is about, etc.
3. what the goal is for each chapter.
4. the first three steps is meant to give you a good feel for the book and most importantly, it allows you to anticipate what's coming up, which greatly helps in comprehension and retention.
5. as fast as you comfortably can scan each page looking for key words. scan in word chunks. don't worry about sentence structure.
6. go back and scan whole sentences concentrating on comrehension.
7. ignore any words or phrases you don't readily understand until you get as good an understanding as possible of what that page is trying to accomplish, then go for definitions to firm up your understanding.
8. don't worry about retention. it should naturally follow your increased comprehension.
9. keep practicing and stay consistent.
the whole idea is to start broad and then zero in on details. in this way your train of thought will be interrupted as little as possible from dealing with obstructive and incomprehensible details, as dealing with them when you already have a pretty good idea of what the page is saying is much easier to do. (or so my instructor said) 🙂 hope this helps....
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determine in this order:
1. what the goal of the book is.
2. get a good feel for how the book is organized. ie- how many chapters, what each chapter is about, etc.
3. what the goal is for each chapter.
4. the first three steps is meant to give you a good feel for the book and most importantly, it allows you to anticipate what's coming up, which greatly helps in comprehension and retention.
5. as fast as you comfortably can scan each page looking for key words. scan in word chunks. don't worry about sentence structure.
6. go back and scan whole sentences concentrating on comrehension.
7. ignore any words or phrases you don't readily understand until you get as good an understanding as possible of what that page is trying to accomplish, then go for definitions to firm up your understanding.
8. don't worry about retention. it should naturally follow your increased comprehension.
9. keep practicing and stay consistent.
the whole idea is to start broad and then zero in on details. in this way your train of thought will be interrupted as little as possible from dealing with obstructive and incomprehensible details, as dealing with them when you already have a pretty good idea of what the page is saying is much easier to do. (or so my instructor said) 🙂 hope this helps....
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