Speed reading

During the reading

 

As you begin to read, you must reevaluate the information that you have in front of you. The 

questions that you must ask are.

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What is the topic being discussed now?

Understand the main idea of the current passage, and how it relates to what came earlier.

 

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What is the organization of the material?

Examine how the information presented is organized. Information may be presented in 

several ways. Some organizational methods are: chronological, comparison, 

cause/effect, experimental, most important first, least important first etc.

 

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What information is necessary?

Skim the paragraph. Find the topic sentence and some of the key words in the passage. 

Determine if it is important to your purpose. If not, you could probably skip the 

paragraph and not lose any important information.

 

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What topic is coming next?

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Try to predict what information will be presented next. This allows you to form stronger 

links in memory to material that you have already read, and to knowledge that you 

already possess, therefore retaining more of the new information.