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In groups of 3-4 write up to 5 sentences to describe your:
• Reading habits
• Reading approach
• Priorities for this workshop
Your approaches to reading
• Choosing what to read
• Techniques for reading more quickly
• Ideas for reading on screen
• Your reading strategy
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Today we’ll look at
Defining your key words:
• Helps focus on important points/texts
• Primes you to read and think about the text
• Produces more manageable reading lists
Can’t read it all- so be realistic!
Searching
Doing the reading
You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once. You need to read things more than once.
Search the context: Choose what to read
Zoom out: Quick read for the general landscape
Zoom in: More detailed read for understanding (take notes here)
Check and verify: review meaning, critiques, gaps in knowledge
Sorting out a strategy
Read the text for 1 minute. Note your words per minute score.
250 wpm- UK average
400 wpm- get through your academic reading
800 wpm- speed reading (but you’ll need to practice)
Start from the beginning your current speed
1
Sub-vocalization?
Regression or backskipping?
Always looking up unfamiliar words?
Reading each word at a time?
What slows you down?
1
Use a pen, your finger, or a piece of paper under the words.
Aids concentration and helps you get through the words more quickly.
Technique 2: Get a little help
1
“Chunk” your words together.
Try reading 2 at a time. If that’s easy, try reading 4 at a time.
Use punctuation to guide you:
Technique 3: Two at a time
1This one’s a bit trickier. We don’t always know what our mannerisms are, so you might need to ask someone to give you some honest comments
• Spreeder chunks text you upload by flashing it on the screen.
• No visual navigation.
• Motion sickness?
Help with chunks
• Evidence for/against paper or screen is inconclusive-personal preference
• When reading on screen consider
– Lack of spatial markers
– Screen clutter
– Visual fatigue
But I don’t read on paper!
Makes the most difference
• Use full screen PDFs
• Hit CTRL + to enlarge text or F11 for full screen mode
• ‘Reading’ function on your browser (check settings)
• ‘Mercury Reader’ for Chrome strips excess text/screen clutter.
Cut the clutter and reduce distractions!
Tidy up your screen
Backlit screens (laptop, phones, tablets) are more visually tiring than paper-may read more slowly!
• Use f.lux to fix light levels and reduce eyestrain
• Try changing text colour on e-readers or iBooks
• Most importantly take breaks
Visual fatigue
• Read text using all the techniques we discussed.
• Work out your WPM score
• Take 2 minutes to explain it to someone
Putting it all together
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Set yourself 2-3 action points to try out over the next two weeks
The Warwick Skills Portfolio Award (WSPA) will help you to develop skills that are valued by employers and that will be useful for you more broadly, in your personal life and whilst studying here at Warwick.
Complete 3 workshops and 3 sets of reflections, guided and supported by an online coach
What next?
1:1 Academic Skills Advice appointments
Writing mentors
Get in touch:
skills@warwick.ac.uk
@warwickskills
Give us some feedback:
www.warwick.ac.uk/skillsfeedback
Workshop: Speed Reading
Tutor:
Further advice and feedback
Buzan, Tony The Speed Reading Book
Spreeder
f.Lux
Mercury Reader
GetWise
Reading on screen blog
Resources
Slide 4 Child Reading, Jessie Wilcox-Smith (1863 – 1935) Public Domain
Slide 5 Warwick Media
Slide 12 White Shark, Sydney Aquarium, By Pedro Szekely from Los Angeles, USA CC BY-SA 2.0,
Slide 13 Eye, Open Clipart
Slide 16 Building Blocks, Open Clipart
Slide 20 & 21 Dry Etsoha Pan by Alchemist-hp (talk) (www.pse-mendelejew.de) - Own work, FAL,
Image Credits
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