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What is the most crucial skill among the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing?
What is one of the benefits of effective reading?
What is the average reading speed of a college student?
What is the average reading speed for a person reading for comprehension?
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What does effective reading help in?
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What does Francis Bacon say about reading?
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What is the primary goal of an efficient reader?
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Why is it necessary to learn the skills and techniques of artful reading?
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What is the result of plodding (reading word by word) on understanding?
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What is the first step in effective reading?
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What is one of the effects of effective reading on a person?
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What is a characteristic of an inefficient reader?
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What does effective reading facilitate?
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What is the benefit of proper reading training?
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What does an efficient reader do to the text?
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What is the relation between reading speed and understanding?
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Study Notes
Effective Technical Reading Practices
Importance of Reading
- Reading is a crucial skill for success in both academic and professional life.
- Good readers are good communicators, and reading skills cannot be ignored.
Benefits of Effective Reading
- Provides comprehensible input from the text.
- Enhances the ability to use other language skills like listening, speaking, and writing.
- Expands vocabulary.
- Helps maintain focus and prevents distractions.
- Enables efficient extraction of useful information.
- Builds confidence in reading longer texts.
- Provides pleasure and relaxation.
- Facilitates the development of skills like making predictions, comparing, and hypothesizing.
Speed of Reading
- Average college students read between 150-250 words per minute.
- "Good" reading speed is around 250-400 words per minute.
- Purpose of reading affects reading speed: memorization (fewer than 100 wpm), learning (100-200 wpm), comprehension (200-400 wpm), and skimming (400-700 wpm).
Efficient Reading vs. Inefficient Reading
- An efficient reader reads for ideas or information, while an inefficient reader tries to read words.
- An efficient reader reads groups of words or multi-phrases, while an inefficient reader reads word by word.
- An efficient reader adjusts speed according to the text, while an inefficient reader reads at a fixed pace.
Four Basic Steps to Effective Reading
- Figure out the purpose of reading a particular text.
- Identify relevant parts of the text and ignore the rest.
- Use background knowledge and selectivity to focus on specific elements of information.
- Continuously improve reading pace and sort out material as critical, interesting, analytical, etc.
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Description
Learn about the importance of effective reading skills in academic and professional life. This module covers technical reading and writing practices, including the benefits of reading and how to improve reading skills.
