Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading \& Learning Program pdfdrive com

ACTION DIGEST
1.
Use a slash recall pattern for lecture notes.
2.
Take one page of recall pattern notes for every hour of lecturing.
3.
Listen to understand, not to record notes.
4.
Indicate links between ideas and concepts on your recall pattern.
5.
Record only main ideas, key words and essential data.
6.
Rework the speaker’s organization into a more logical format.
7.
Review your recall pattern immediately after the lecture.
8.
Schedule a study session as soon as possible after the lecture.
9.
Review your recall patterns regularly throughout the term.

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8
Supersonic Writing
One of our new reading students, a high-school senior and honors
candidate named Beth, had a block when it came to writing school
papers. After putting off an assignment for weeks, she would finally
begin to plod through the research materials at a snail’s pace. Even a
relatively short paper of four or five typed, double-spaced pages could
easily require her to put in as much as two weeks of steady work to
complete—if she allowed that much time for it.
More often than not, though, she would have less than a week and
sometimes only two or three days available when she finally got started.
As a result, she would typically stay up all night at least one night,
operate under intense time pressure, and hand in a paper that was
usually woefully inadequate.
In fact, Beth’s poor performance on her written work was the major
factor that periodically threatened to pull her down from her honors
status. She knew that if she improved her grades on papers, she would
be in contention for an even higher honors ranking than she now
anticipated.
Beth finally lapsed into a state of near-panic after she received an
assignment to write a paper at least 5,000 words long—or about twenty
typed, doubled-spaced pages—on some topic of her choosing in her
American history course. Detailed footnotes and documentation were
required. Furthermore, the grade on this paper would count as one-third
of her final grade for the course.
In desperation, Beth shared her problem with her Evelyn Wood
instructor and asked for any help he could give her. At this point, she
had attended several sessions of the Evelyn Wood reading and study

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course. But she couldn’t quite see how the program was going to help
her complete the paper that much faster.
In fact, though, our reading and study techniques can be adapted quite
well to produce fast, supersonic writing on school papers. Here are the
main stages in the research process that Beth’s reading instructor
described to her.