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  • Your primary objectives while preparing to reading should be to identify the material topics, your learning objectives and to plan an approach for completing the task successfully.

  • Before beginning to read, identify what you want to be able to do with the information you're going to read about - e.g. compare and contrast material, trace a sequence of events, defend a position, etc.

  • Before you start determine the amount of time you want to spend. Plan approximately one hour for 30 pages of moderately dense material

  • Be an active reader - make a plan before reading, monitor yourself while reading and continually check your progress.

  • Surveying your material before reading makes your reading episode more effective.

  • Learn to anticipate! Survey your environment - Different environments need different strategies. Identify and deal with immediate and potential distracters

 

 

 

   
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