Active Reading

 Some students such as myself may find that they are time-poor and not the best at reading but from reading 3 articles I have found many different techniques to improve this for the future. 

Now reading university texts can be more difficult than an average book you'd buy in Eason's. When reading these texts you have to know what you're reading and why. There are many different critical techniques to solve these problems such as making notes. Making notes allows you to summarize what you have read to gain a better understanding of the knowledge in your own terms I feel this is key as sometimes text can be pages and pages long that don't get to the point straight away but by summarizing you can understand and get to the point in your own terms. Now, whenever I am doing any sort of reading especially for college I have to make myself comfortable if I can't then I cannot function properly doing my work. Feeling comfortable is one of the most important to me as if you're not comfortable how are you expected to work properly. Most people can only concentrate for 15-20 minutes in one go so it's important to take breaks to but your brain at ease. Even simply snacking and drinking water can really boost your brain to concentrate again. 

On the other hand, there are also active reading. Active reading is reading with determination to understand your own self needs. Reading and rereading isn't the best way to learn there are many different ways to learn. Underlining and highlight key points or words is in my opinion one of the best ways for active learning from my experience. Making certain words or points stands out really grabs your attention as a reader and makes you stay focused on the highlight or underline, as well as that some texts and articles you can read are just way too long that take up to much of your own time. Being able to highlight or underline key sentences are a great way to summarize the text to your understanding without confusing yourself by reading the whole text. Testing yourself is a great way to know if you really can remember what you learned and if you learned it exactly. Testing yourself can put time pressure on you to allow you to answer the questions in a quick time frame which is especially useful for exam preparations. The last point is explaining what you've read to someone else. Explaining what you've read to someone can really stick to your brain more than you'd expect. I feel we as people can remember conversations with people better than reading something as if you are someone like me who loves to chat this is a great way for you to remember.


                                                                 References:

                                            Critical Reading Techniques

                                                              Active Reading

                      Using Student Constructed Questions To Encourage Active Reading

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