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EFFECTIVE LEARNING SERVICE
SIX STEPS TO EFFECTIVE
READING
University of Bradford, School of Management
Six Steps to Effective Reading
SIX STEPS TO EFFECTIVE
READING
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing”.
(Isaac Disraeli)
Developing effective reading management skills is an important part
of learning. However, students can experience difficulties at first
with the volume of reading for their courses. These difficulties can
include time management and with the reading process itself.
The time management issues for students can include:
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finding time to read to get an overall idea about a subject
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finding time to read in preparation for lectures and tutorials
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finding time to read to prepare for assignments.
The ‘technical’ reading issues encountered by some students,
which can slow the reading process, can include:
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learning in English, which may be a second language for many
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puzzling over unfamiliar words and jargon
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repeatedly going back over what has just been read to check
understanding
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reading out aloud or under the breath.
This booklet will present six steps to more effective reading for
all students. The steps are:
1.
Feeling right
about reading
2. Develop the
3Rs of reading
3. Become a more
selective
reader
4. Become a
smarter
reader
5. Become a more
focused
(and faster) reader
6. Become a more
active
reader
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Six Steps to Effective Reading
STEP 1: FEELING RIGHT ABOUT READING
First things first: how do you feel about reading?
Tick the nearest statement below to how you feel about reading. Be
honest!
I enjoy reading all types of things and read often for pleasure
as well as for work or study purposes
I quite like reading, depending on the subject etc, and will
get on with doing it, particularly for work/study purposes -
but I would not say it was my first priority for pleasure
purposes!
I am not very keen on reading, but will do it because I have
to for work or study purposes. I might, occasionally, do it for
pleasure!
I dislike reading, have never really enjoyed it, and try and
avoid it whenever possible
If you don’t feel any of these connects with the way you feel
about reading, write your own feelings in the space below:
Now read the comments on the next page.
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Six Steps to Effective Reading
YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT READING
Your feelings about reading can affect the way you approach and
manage it.
People who generally enjoy the experience of reading and read for
pleasure have often learned instinctively to manage the process.
They know that maintaining and enhancing their enjoyment of
reading is often about:
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finding the right time and place to read
getting into the right mood
getting involved actively with what they read
…and picking the right text to read.
These basic reading practices will serve them well in higher
education, work and in their personal lives.
However, many students have either mixed feelings about reading,
or dislike the experience- and do it because they have to!
If you are in this latter category, you could begin to address the
issue of managing your reading by trying to increase your
enjoyment
of reading. If you begin to enjoy reading more, this
will help you to develop more effective reading and reading
management techniques.
If you actively
dislike
the experience of reading, you will not
respond as well as you might to the techniques, as your aversion to
reading can act as a barrier to change.
Three Ways of Making the Experience of Reading More
Enjoyable:
1. Try going once a week to buy something to read that really interests
you – a comic, a magazine, anything! The brighter, the lighter, the
more frivolous, rude, controversial or humorous the better. Try and
look forward to this moment in the week. Read it and enjoy it. Stop
when you get bored.
2. Try and encourage a friend or partner to read the same thing you
selected and then have a discussion on what you have read.
3. Set yourself strict limits for reading things you have to read. Set
yourself, a limit of no more than 40-50 minutes reading at any one
stretch. And as you read, try and engage more actively with the text.
(see section 6, pages 19-21).
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Six Steps to Effective Reading
STEP 2: DEVELOP THE 3Rs of READING
It is important to have a purpose for reading before you start.
This advice may seem a self-evident and obvious. But when time is
limited it is important to consider beforehand
why
you intend to
read a particular text and what you hope to gain from it.
Different reading purposes require different levels of engagement
with texts: the
3Rs
of reading.
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Reading to Reveal
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Reading to Review
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Reading to Remind
(1) Reading to prepare
for
lectures
and tutorials – to
reveal main points
and
(2) to
reveal new sources and data
to add to knowledge gained from
lectures and tutorials, in preparation
for writing assignments or taking
examinations.
Reading Approach:
(1) Reading in preparation for a
lecture or tutorial will help you to
anticipate and understand some of the
ideas and practices that the tutor will
present and discuss.
At this stage, as you do not need a
great depth of knowledge,
a fairly
quick scan
and review of the main
ideas and practices associated with a
particular topic will give you the basic
understanding of the key ideas that
you need to know to follow the lecture.
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2) Reading to reveal new sources and
TO REVEAL
data requires however, a
slower
more investigative approach
to
reading and needs more time allocated
to it.
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