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I would exercise caution with most 'speed reading' help books, they're the get rich quick scheme of wannabe intellectuals.
That being said, it's hard to understate the productivity of a skilled reader- the person who can rapidly digest and critically understand written word at the highest level is dangerously effective. Getting to this level takes more work than most speedreading guides will admit.
I've read all sorts of books on this topic and one stands head and shoulders above the rest: How to Read A Book - Mortimer Adler. Its an old book but a classic. If you truly want to improve reading speed AND comprehension, or just want some motivation, this is the definitive place to start in my humble experience. I'm sharing because this book helped me tremendously and I think it will for you as well.
Plenty of opportunity to become well-read in 2019. Best of luck!
P.S. the original edition of this book (1940) mentions prevalence of speed reading books... Fascinating that they were popular back then, and have been around much longer than one might think.
No, I'm asking if anyone has encountered the same problem or knows any way to contact support because I am frustrated that I can't watch the G1.
https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Comprehension-Success-Minutes-Builders/dp/1576854949 Here's a book for you.
This isn't quite what you requested, but Adler's How to Read a Book gives you a framework for something similar that can be used with any reading you do. The book features a brief set of questions designed to get you to express the main idea of what you read, how to apply the knowledge, etc. It's far more difficult than it appears, but it makes reading much more rewarding.
The method was introduced to me in my college philosophy classes and has served me well ever since.
How to Read a Book. Actually really good and useful.
NTA, but please don't intentionally let your grades slip. The best way to handle the situation is to talk with your teacher and also reach out to some friends to make a study group. Divide up the readings and share notes with each other! Since this is an AP class, there are hundreds of former, overworked, 16-year-olds who have been through the exact same class and posted their notes online. Reading those notes will save you a lot of time!
Also, you definitely don't have to actually read everything! There are strategies you can use to figure out the main concepts in each chapter/section. Below is a book a professor showed our class when I was in grad school that gives strategies on how to get important information without actually reading the whole book. Maybe your local library has it? https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671212095/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Yc.yFbC67FTB0
Completely eliminating subvocalizing is hard but you can reduce it to a very minimum. Doing exercises as those given Peter Kump's Breakthrough rapid reading really helped me. It doesn't involve listening to music or counting, but using your finger and go faster and faster.
I'm not an academic, nor am I extremely well read- however, I recommend you check out Mortimer J Adler's How to Read a Book if you haven't already, as you might find it helpful. It covers some of the different "levels" of understanding a text and you might find it helpful in developing a method to breeze through other texts and scan for potentially important passages.
I like this one and a lot of people recommend it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/073520019X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_XBSBXSAPS6CXXTSSAQVF?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
I think yall inspired me to start working in it again.
Sure thing-- best of luck. Grab a copy of Adler if you haven't read it (look for the 1972 edition with Charles Van Doren's updates). Read part II carefully (that's the general methodology) and then read the sections of part III that are specifically about reading history. It'll take you an hour perhaps and that will be time well spent I'd say.
I have this template I made after reading How to Read a Book. In conjunction with How to Take Smart Notes, I find myself remembering most of everything I read once I read the notes from the books I've read in the past. Within Abdaal's levels, this puts me at a level 7.
It depends on the subject matter and what you need to do with it. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading has great advice for the different purposes. Don’t just trudge through each reading from page one. Scan, skim. Be careful what you decide to give a close reading of.
Keep a journal of your readings and make notes. That will help review the insights you pick up and remember where important references are from.
Instead of one notebook per class I personally recommend keeping all your reading notes in one book. Save the first four pages as a table of contents. Number the rest of the pages. That way when you get a new reading assignment you can add it to the TOC list and next to it note what page it starts on. That way you can skim it quickly to find it again. These tips are from the Bullet Journal method.
Good morning!
I have one more suggestion for you/someone else with similar problems.
In grad school, it helped me a lot to do an initial quick read-through of the material before going back over the piece with a fine-toothed comb.
As you've said, a lot of these materials include a lot of fluff and it's easy to get distracted while trying to write as you read. The quick initial read (or skim, whatever you want to call it) is good for identifying what will be important to focus on when you go back and identifying what needs to be written down. I often found myself highlighting a lot of unnecessary stuff and writing a lot more than I needed because I wasn't really sure what was going to be important later on. This process helped to curb that and cut out A LOT of time that was being wasted.
I think it was in Adler and Van Doren's How to Read a Book that I learned the following strategy:
First, read all of the incidentals (title, author, abstract/summary, section titles). Then, read the introduction and conclusion. Then, look at the first and last sentences in every paragraph.
After that, go back through and give the piece a good read-through. You should be able to do so fairly quickly because you already know what to expect, for the most part. You'll pick up whatever you missed the first time around, and gain a really strong sense of the piece.
I really recommend their book if you ever get a chance. It's broken up really well, too, so you can just pick out sections rather than reading it front-to-back. I consult it whenever I need a refresher.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and the reading list at the back is a good place to start.
Started reading the Great Books of Western World after seeing the list in the Appendix of How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. Set a goal of 50 pages a day, 6 days a week. Some days I read more, some less. Missed a few days here and there because life happens. But was consistent and just kept at it. Started shortly after my 30th birthday, just turned 41 and still reading my 50 pages a day most days.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler covers when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. Plus there is a great reading list in the Appendix.
Sim. Defino a lista de livros que quero ler durante o ano e sigo a lógica FIFO, mas se aparecer algo muito legal ou recomendação relevante eu faço um insertion sort.
No dia a dia é tentar ler pelo menos um pouquinho diariamente pra criar o hábito e conseguir finalizar a leitura planejada.
Pode considerar ler How to Read a Book.
P.S. Uso stick notes pra não estragar o livro.
Ask your mom to buy you this for Christmas. The evidence points to it being right for you.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler. Classic guide to intelligent reading with a great reading list in the appendix.
”Have” ends with an ””E because English words can't/don't end with a ”U,” ”V,” ”J,” or ”I.” I believe the only exceptions to this rule are the words "you," "I," and "thou" along words that originate from another language (like "ski," "menu," and "alibi"). This book has more info.
Wait.... I'm almost positive that if you actually read what I said, that I gave Bellicheck credit, no? I said Brady likely had MORE to do with it, but I didn't say Bellicheck had NOTHING to do with it?
Maybe spend some money on this and then answer me back.
For one thing, I used a book called "the complete guide to SAT reading by Erica Meltzer". Some don't even know this book but it contains a bit of tips and lots of sat questions. For writing, do college panda writing
SAT reading Erica Meltzer
Look into Uncovering the Logic of English. It helps define English rules more precisely than is often taught in school. They have a website that can help you teach your daughter, but I've only read the book myself.
After looking through the book, maybe take a few samples of her writing and try to identify what commonalities there are in her mistakes. Address them individually.
>How to Read a Book
Hello Achilles - could you provide the Author or the ISBN to the book you reference above?
I found this and would like to make sure it's the right book, since this was released in 72 not 40.
> So with that explanation I would expect to find out you're a fundamentalist, would that be true?
That's a very imprecise term, and by some measures it might be possible to apply it towards me, but I think it doesn't fit what either of us typically think of as that term.
> And if not, the question remains how you picked which parts to not be fundamentalist about. I think that's what the original question was getting at
Yes, I think so, too, and I think I find fault with the question's assumptions for that. How does anyone decide what to understand of any text? We ... read it, and we think about it. We look at internal and external context, try to understand the language, and just like ... we apply our capacity for understanding things to it. If OP thinks that there is some simple formula for understanding any text, that seems rather overly simplistic.
Perhaps it would make sense if OP had been a former fundamentalist, because that seems like an overly simplistic approach to understanding a text.
For either of you, if you're curious about how to approach understanding a text, this might be a good place to start. For more insight into Bible understanding as a whole, you would be exploring a topic called Biblical Hermeneutics, and there are many books on the topic. But if you already know the fundamentals of "How to read a book" (which despite it's dumb / patronizing sounding name, is a rich starter resource for that type of thing), then you already understand most of what comes into play in Biblical hermeneutics.
お会いできて嬉しいです！My daughters mainly speak Japanese.
After wasting a lot of time with other approaches, we started Logic of English a year and a half ago, and haven't looked back. My younger daughter just completed Logic of English Foundations A-D, and my older daughter is currently in Logic of English Essentials 15. My only regret is that we didn't start this sooner.
To understand this approach, you may want to read Denise Eide's book: https://www.amazon.com/Uncovering-Logic-English-Common-Sense-Approach/dp/1936706210
The answer is it depends on how you define a finger.
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It's clear you aren't good at reading comprehension. Further, exceptions certainly DO invalidate rules. What else would? You are talking generalities, which I've made pains to explicitly explain that I'm not. I'm talking about abnormalities and how, scientifically speaking, there are outliers and they exist.
It's a waste of time to communicate further with you when you don't even follow what I'm saying. No snark, but you would do well to read this.
Have a good day, I'm not going to waste time trying to re-explain the wheel to you.
How to Read a Book is an excellent guide on analytical book reading. One of the steps is to read the book as fast as you can once, and then go back to the parts you didn't understand, then determine their meaning from the surrounding context you do understand.