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How to read a text from website Mental Floss

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How to read a text from website Mental Floss

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This website provides seven tipis for how to read a text and read faster, the seven tips which are preview the text, plan your attack, be mindful, don't read every word, don't read every section, write a summary and practice time runs. I do agree that preview the text and don't read every word is important for reading a longer text, and practice timed runs can help me  keeping the time, especially when I am writing the exam and need to read a longer text, I definitely do not want to spend lots of times on reading when writing an exam. Besides, write a summary can also be helpful to understand well about the text. However, I do not agree the tip that about dont read every section. Because I believed every section have its own importance, and the section will also related to the thesis statement. We can skip the section when we are writing the summary of article, but i think it is still useful to read every section.

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Whether you skim a blog post, peruse files for work, or browse through a book, you most likely do some type of reading every day. But slogging through dense passages of text can be time-consuming, mentally exhausting, and hard on your eyes. If you want to read faster while maintaining reading comprehension, check out these seven tips.

1. PREVIEW THE TEXT.

Viewing a film's trailer before watching the movie gives you context and lets you know what to expect. Likewise, previewing a text before reading it prepares you to quickly gain an understanding of what you're about to read. To preview a text, scan it from the beginning to the end, paying special attention to headings, subheadings, anything in bold or large font, and bullet points. To get a big picture understanding, skim the introductory and concluding paragraphs. Try to identify transition sentences, examine any images or graphs, and figure out how the author structured the text.

2. PLAN YOUR ATTACK.

Strategically approaching a text will make a big difference in how efficiently you can digest the material. First, think about your goals. What do you want to learn by reading the material? Jot down some questions you want to be able to answer by the end. Then, determine the author's goal in writing the material, based on your preview. The author's goal, for example, might be to describe the entire history of Ancient Rome, while your goal is simply to answer a question about Roman women's role in politics. If your goal is more limited in scope than the author's, plan to only find and read the pertinent sections.

Similarly, vary your plan of attack based on the type of material you're about to read. If you're going to read a dense legal or scientific text, you should probably plan to read certain passages more slowly and carefully than you'd read a novel or magazine.

3. BE MINDFUL.

Reading quickly with good comprehension requires focus and concentration. Minimize external noise, distractions, and interruptions, and be mindful when your thoughts wander as you read. If you notice that you're fantasizing about your next meal rather than focusing on the text, gently bring your mind back to the material. Many readers read a few sentences passively, without focus, then spend time going back and re-reading to make sure they understand them. According to author Tim Ferriss, this habit, called regression, will significantly slow you down and make it harder to get a big picture view of the text. If you carefully and attentively approach a text, you'll quickly realize if you're not understanding a section, saving you time in the long run.

4. DON'T READ EVERY WORD.

To increase your reading speed, pay attention to your eyes. Most people can scan in 1.5 inch chunks, which, depending on the font size and type of text, usually comprise three to five words each. Rather than reading each word individually, move your eyes in a scanning motion, jumping from a chunk (of three to five words) to the next chunk of words. Take advantage of your peripheral vision to speed up around the beginning and end of each line, focusing on blocks of words rather than the first and last words.

Pointing your finger or a pen at each chunk of words will help you learn to move your eyes quickly over the text. And it will encourage you not to subvocalize as you read. Subvocalization, or silently pronouncing each word in your head as you read, will slow you down and distract you from the author's main point.

5. DON'T READ EVERY SECTION.

According to Dartmouth College's Academic Skills Center, it's an old-fashioned myth that students must read every section of a textbook or article. Unless you're reading something extremely important, skip the sections that aren't relevant to your purpose. Reading selectively will make it possible for you to digest the main points of many texts, rather than only having time to fully read a couple.

6. WRITE A SUMMARY.

Your job shouldn't end when you read the last word on the page. After you finish reading, write a few sentences to summarize what you read, and answer any questions you had before you started reading. Did you learn what you were hoping to learn? By spending a few minutes after reading to think, synthesize the information, and write what you learned, you'll solidify the material in your mind and have better recall later. If you're a more visual or verbal learner, draw a mind map summary or tell someone what you learned.

7. PRACTICE TIMED RUNS.

Approaching a text strategically, reading actively, and summarizing effectively takes practice. If you want to improve your reading speed, use a timer to test how many words (or pages) per minute you can read. As you're able to read faster and faster, check in with yourself to make sure you're happy with your level of comprehension.

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7 Tips for How to Read Faster (and Still Understand What You Read)

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Whether you skim a blog post, peruse files for work, or browse through a book, you most likely do some type of reading every day. But slogging through dense passages of text can be time-consuming, mentally exhausting, and hard on your eyes. If you want to read faster while maintaining reading comprehension, check out these seven tips.

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On January 18 afternoon, our class visited the Brick Lane to show how multiculturalism affects this area and how people from France and Bangladesh lived in Brick Lane. Before we visited the Brick Lane, I did not think this is the integration success that they open shops on the streets, since they mainly sell goods and products from their home country.  However, I realized the market that has over thousands of shops would let different ethnic people know about their culture and food.

After the Brick Lane walks, we had a poster presentation assignment regarding on multiculturalism. The most challenging things for this poster are most of the statistical numbers are based on city or even country, such as Islam population in the United Kingdom or London. Finding some data regarding East End is complicated. Because of this reason, I tend to give up this topic and discussed with our group members to tried to find a new topic for our group’s poster presentation. However, I believed this task could improve my skills on research method. Therefore, our group did not change the topic, and I spend lots of time on research.

After having this poster presentation, I think I have slightly improved my skills in research method since I have to search different websites online and also need to skim the texts to find some useful information. This means that I am able to examine more harder topics or understand academic articles more. I believed this skill is very useful to me as a pre-master student because research method can make it easier for me to find the texts I am looking for and allows me to understand the texts more effectively.

For research projects in the future, I will use the research method that professors taught us to help me finish my assignments, and in the meantime, I also need to read more articles for practice in order to improve my skills of research methods.

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Reading Method Exercise from Research method class 

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Reading Method Exercise from Research method class 

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I redo the exercise that from the research method class that related to how to read an academic text. the reason why I redo again is because i am always confusing the terms between "scanning and skimming". and "intensive reading" and "extensive reading". And this handout is very useful since it provide a guideline and steps that lead us know how to read an academic article.

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Reading Method from Research Method Class

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Article from Research method class, related to the exercise

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Article from Research method class, related to the exercise

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Summary:
The article "Macao" written by Tang and Sheng using radical political transformation, the rapid economic growth, physical expansion and the consequent social and environmental challenges to analyzing and discussing Macao's past, present and future planning. Macao was colonized by Portugal until 20 December 1999, in order to let China and Macao facing the issue of reunion, Deng Xiaoping who is a leader of People's republic of China was innovative a policy called "one country two system". This policy is keep Macao and Hong Kong remain unchanged for 50 years as colonized period, such as economic system, legal system monetary system, and immigration policy, and so on. The authors believed that Macau's rapid economic growth can due to two comparative advantages, the first one is Macau is the only city in China to permit gambling, this attracts lots of tourism to visits Macao, and lead Macao as the the first gaming market in the world, the second comparative advantage is conservation of its historic city, Macao has lots of building and monuments have historic background, and these building has been well protected by government. However, Macao cannot be seen as a well developed city because Macao lack of qualified professional, congested traffic lack of comprehensive urban and environmental planning. Tang and Sheng did a research about Macao's government planning about these issues, the planning are include to have light rail transit system, and provide more parking slots in Macao in order to solve the congested traffic, and Macao has issuing the new gaming licenses to prevent build more casinos and slow down the casino boom in order to prepare the new urban planning strategies.

Reflection:
It is quite interesting article that discussing variety aspects of Macao. At the beginning of the reading, I did quickly scamming the sub-title to have a basic idea about the contents of the article. I did very read carefully when I read the first four pages, but after that, I began to feel little bit frustrate due to the length of the article and some words that I do not know the meaning, but I did keeping reading it by keep forcing myself to read slowly, and to check the definition of the words. Next time, maybe I can provide more notes on the article, because notes can help me more underestand the article better and tried to summarize the main function of each paragraph.

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Article 2 - "Animal language studies: What happened?" by Pepperberg. 

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Article 2 - "Animal language studies: What happened?" by Pepperberg. 

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Summary: This article "Animal language studies: what happened" written by Pepperberg mainly wrote about the variety methods of nonhuman animal language learnings, and author did provides different opinions regarding on these methods.

Reflection: I spend around one and half hours to read this article, however, I am not fully understand about this article, maybe it is due to there are no sub-heading as a guide to read, and in this paper, it is lots of non-intergral intext citation throughout the article, it is quite messy. Besides, the last major reason for me to not very understand this article is because there are lots of words that I am not recognize, as some biology words.

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Summary: In this paper, "The evolution of China's one-child policy and its effects on Family outcomes" written by Junsen Zhang, using four different approaches and one microeconomic evidence to discuss the effects of one-child policy on varies aspects, which are fertility, child education, and other family outcomes, such as divorce. According to this paper, the idea of family planning was presence on 1956, but since Mao, who is the supreme Chinese leader always believed that large population was better. After the 1969, the China's population population has exceed 800 million, leading to the stagnation of economic growth, then Mao believed that overpopulation need to be controlled. However, at the beginning of the one-child policy implented, lots of rural family against this policy, since rural family need more children, especially more boys to support the family in order to have more producitivty on farming. When facing this issue, China's government has adjusted the one-child policy that rural family and other exception cases can have more than one child, if the first children is a girl. The other issue of one-child policy is the penalty and the power of execution are different between each cities, this makes the local government feel that the central government does not care much about this policy, and leading to the population increase again.
Authors believed that the one-child policy can improve the education level in China since parent will spend more time and money on one child, and this policy will also decrease the divorce rate.

Reflection: I think I did improving on reading academic article by trying to write down the function of paragraph and some notes about this article, because this can help me focus on this article, and read carefully. However, when I am reading the four approaches about the evidence on the affect of one-child policy, it is quite boring, and I did tried to skip some of them at first, but later, I tried to come down by myself can read.