How to read Successfully
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This document provides tips for successfully reading large amounts of material as a graduate student. It discusses key concepts like reading speed and comprehension. Some tips include skimming before close reading, building vocabulary, and taking notes. Critical reading involves evaluating statements and logic. Issues addressed are retaining information, dealing with large volumes to read, and maintaining focus. Overall it offers strategies to improve reading skills needed for graduate-level work.
How to read Successfully
- 1. HOW TO READ SUCCESSFULLY BY: NOOR HAZARINA HASHIM, PhD SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES 27 DECEMBER 2018
- 2. 2 And you thought you had a lot to read in your undergrad program……. Welcome to Grad School!
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- 4. BIG CONCEPT Bring the attention of your audience over a key concept using icons or illustrations 4
- 5. WHAT IS READING? READING 5 ▪ A cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from the text. ▪ Reading consist of two related process: a) Word Recognition : process of perceiving how written symbols is written symbols correspond to one’s spoken language. b) Comprehension: The process of making sense of words, sentence and connected text.
- 6. 6 Self-reflection questions How strong are my reading skills? Am I reading fast enough? Do I read with a critical eye? Do I manage the vast amount of information I need to read?
- 7. Reading Comprehension - the ability to fully understand what is being read 7
- 8. Issues Related To Reading… 8 1. SPEED The speed of reading is determine by: 1. Purpose: Leisure, Seek for Argument 2. Nature & Difficulty: depends on background knowledge and complexity of material 3. Internal Structure: Fixating and Regressing Experiments with slow readers show that not only do these readers look at every word (called ‘fixation’), their eyes jump back to previously seen words (called ‘regression’).
- 9. How to improve speed? ▪ Preparation 0: Is the right paper? ▪ Preparation 1: 9 • Conditioning your eye • Skimming: SKIMMING IS READING. • Building your vocabulary: For second language speakers of English, vocabulary acquisition, both academic and non-academic, is an ongoing and daily process. Strive to learn a few new words each week. • Improve concentration • Improve memory and recall • Reduce subvocalization • Reduce interruptions, procrastination and stress
- 10. Issues Related To Reading… 10 2. COMPREHENSION There are three types of reading comprehension Content reading – Understanding the information Empathic reading – Understanding the spirit of the message Critical reading – Combine the first two with analysis and evaluation
- 11. 1. Let’s start with the first set of slides 11
- 12. How to read a research paper? ▪ Preparation 0 : Is the right paper? ▪ Preparation 1: Print the paper, have a stack of paper for note-taking. ▪ Preparation 3: Reading a paper is adifficult task, a very difficult task. It requires con ▪ Preparation 4: Skimming through the paper. ▪ Identify the types of the document - Abstract: Please read closely - Introduction: Usually, the introduction also summarises the contributions of the paper to the area (more verbosely than the abstract). Read this carefully, and take some notes to remind yourself later on. - Conclusion: You’ll find a more detailed summary of the contributions, and their context – how they performed compared to similar techniques, what impact their contribution 12
- 13. How to read a research paper? ▪ Preparation 5 : Reading the paper. Read critically, ▪ Preparation 6: After Reading the Paper - Put the paper aside and think about it, and how it is related to your interest and work. - Rewrite the notes into concise ones, with sufficient detail to allow you to recall the paper contents in a year’s time. - Think about the paper, and compare to related work. - Reread your notes in a couple of days to make sure that they still make sense, and that you have left nothing important out. 13
- 14. Issues Related To Reading… 14 3. CRITICAL READING Critical reading involves evaluating and judging the accuracy of statements, soundness of the reasoning that leads to conclusion. What to consider when reading critically? Content reading – Understanding the information Empathic reading – Understanding the spirit of the message Critical reading – Combine the first two with analysis and evaluation
- 15. Issues Related To Reading… 15 4. RETENTION 61% of what you read is lost after the first hour and 100% is lost after 24 hours unless…. You revisit the information.
- 16. Issues Related To Reading… 16 5. VOLUME – TOO MUCH! Keep on Top of the Pile: On your daily schedule, set aside a block of time called ‘Reading’, preferably at the same time each day so you become habituated to a reading routine. Reduce Volume: to essential things and then read them in the way appropriate to that specific task. Read for Purpose: e.g. get an overview; read to do an assignment; read for studying (reading to access information), in- depth insight into a theory, argument, process; prepare for a seminar Don’t Panic: Don‘t let the reading list on the syllabus scare you. Professors don‘t expect you to read it all. They are simply giving you additional reference, insights into topic, etc.
- 17. Issues Related To Reading… 17 6. FOCUS AND CONCENTRATION • Minimize distractions e.g. email, kids • Know your best concentration span for reading and stick to it and then take a break. Try the 50-10- 50 technique: 50 minutes reading, 10 minute break, 50 minutes reading. • Don’t try to read when tired • If you are a kinesthetic /tactile learner, you need to DO something while you read.
- 18. Credits SOME USEFUL RESOURCES: CRITICAL READING FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS https://sass.queensu.ca/wp- content/uploads/sites/2/2013/09/Critical-reading-for- graduate-students.pdf How to read a paper? http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/gordon.pace/Teaching/HowToRead APaper/HowToReadAPaper.pdf 18