READING EFFICIENTLY BY READING INTELLIGENTLY

1. Strategy 1: Knowing what you want to know.

1.1. Formulate questions for asking yourself about the topic.

1.2. Look at the introduction and chapter headings.

2. Strategy 2: Knowing how deeply to study the material.

2.1. Skim the material to get the shallowest knowledge of the subject.

2.2. Scan the material to get a moderate level of information on the subject.

3. Strategy 3: Active reading.

3.1. Highlighting, underlining and annotating.

3.2. Do it to keep your mind focused on the material.

4. Strategy 4: How to study different sorts of material.

4.1. If you know tha layout of the material you are reading, you can extract useful information much more efficiently.

4.2. Reading magazines and newspapers.

4.3. Scan the contents tables.

4.4. Read quickly the most important for you.

5. Strategy 5: Reading "whole subject" documents.

5.1. compile your own table of contents.

5.2. This helps you to read the document in order.

6. Strategy 6: Using glossaries with technical documents.

6.1. Photocopy or compile a glossary to make easier the reading of difficult technical material.

6.2. Note down the key concepts in your own words.

6.3. It is better when you create concepts maps.