Developing Reading Skills: Sections overview
Before you begin the exercises on this site, complete these questions about your reading habits. Then follow the advice.
1. Reading Faster
This section teaches you how to increase your reading speed and make decisions about how to read.
Faster reading
- Do you know how to read for discovery?
- Do you know how to build up subject knowledge?
- Do you know how to use the structure of the text?
- Do you know how to guide your reading with cues?
2. Improve your concentration
This section shows you how to read efficiently so you can take in new knowledge and don’t waste time.
Improve your concentration
- Do you know what strategies to use to develop concentration?
- Do you know how to use prediction in your reading?
- Do you want to learn a method to develop your concentration?
3. Taking notes
This topic teaches you how to take notes for different purposes.
Taking notes
- Do you have a good note taking method to help you to understand what you are reading?
- Do you have a good note taking method to help yout to concentrate?
- Do you know how to take useful notes for essay writing?
- Do you have an effective method for taking notes from more than one text?
4. Critical analysis
The strategies in this section will guide you in how to read for analysis. This will also help you to understand what critical analysis means and how to use this in your university studies.
Ctirical analysis
- Do you have strategies to get started in your reading?
- Do you know why it is useful to consider the context of the reading?
- Do you know why it is useful to consider how the writing is presented?
- Do you know how to analyse arguments and evidence?
- Do you know how to compare and contrast readings?