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CHAPTER 7: READING SKILLS, images, Skimming-1 - Coggle Diagram
CHAPTER 7: READING SKILLS
QUESTIONING: This is an essential step, it will bring students the results that they need. That questions are:
(2) What do I expect to find?
(3) What do I already know about the subject?
(1) What is that I want to find?
READING
Reading techinque: Is important in the situation that you have to read the large volumes of information in your studies. Two techinques are: Skimming and Reading more than once.
READING MORE THAN ONCE: academic writing provides a lot of information within a typical page or a particular paragraph, so students must read a particular section more than once.
SKIMMING: Reading the first sentence of each paragraph to have a summary of that particular chapter.
RECALLING
Benefit of note-taking
personalizes your learning
easy to see overall picture
greater involvement in learning process
summary of key points, references
aids memory and exam revision
help to use own words in assignment
REVIEWING: final step of SQ3R
Boosting long-term learning
allows us to transfer new knowledge and skills from short-term to long-term memory, and keep it there
make sure there is no mistake in assignment
re-read key section that highloghted, specific pages
make sure to know the key point clearly
READ MORE
Challenging books and articles
Improving vocabulary
choosing to read something
find challenging but interesting
area of interest first
author: write in style - you asprire
read some pages of book to get an indication
look at the book cover and endorsements of the other reader
Learning subject- specific words
Find in textbooks and journal articles
READ SMART
Method: SQ3R
Surveying
Questioning
Reading
Recalling
Reviewing
Creating Ideal Condition
Set Goals, ask yourself why,where,when, and how
Focus, Avoid any kind of distraction
Be comfortable
why read?
stimulation of our own thinking
gaining of experience
transferable use
Better social skills
understand and use vocabulary precisely
SURVEYING
The art of surveying
Surveying helps you to select books and journals that will serve as key sources of information; survey the title of the book/journal, the cover, introduction and for journal articles the abstract.
Reading lists and textbooks
Abstracts
The purpose of an abstract is to allow you to see at a glance whether or not the article is relevant to your reading.
Order of reading
you should read the abstract,
introduction and then the conclusion first.
