Probably a bad idea to start a thread right before I go to sleep, but here it goes:
on my website, I offer some strategies I use (and I teach my students) to facilitate my reading. raulpacheco.org/resources/read…
I read A LOT. I've improved my reading the usual way: PRACTICING.
on my website, I offer some strategies I use (and I teach my students) to facilitate my reading. raulpacheco.org/resources/read…
I read A LOT. I've improved my reading the usual way: PRACTICING.
If you think that skimming hundreds of articles or books will make you competent at READING, you're fooling yourself. As I have emphasized in my blog posts: there is no substitute for DEEP reading.
Obviously we need to triage, prioritize, and frequently, we DO skim A LOT.
Obviously we need to triage, prioritize, and frequently, we DO skim A LOT.
But there are points where you need to stop & engage with the material in more depth. This is something I've said all the time, even in my blog posts on how to do #AICCSED raulpacheco.org/2017/12/carvin…
You need to be systematic, diligent and accept that we all read at various speeds.
You need to be systematic, diligent and accept that we all read at various speeds.
Even though my parents sent me to speed-reading courses (which I'll admit, helped a lot), there are articles and books that REALLY require me to sit down, read, re-read, digest the material, and read again. Others, I can speed-read and absorb the general gist. There's VARIATION.
I've been reading through the responses to @eveewing 's question (many are excellent), but a couple of books that were linked make it sound as though you should cut corners ALL THE TIME.
Unfortunately, whether you're in STEM or humanities or social sciences, cutting corners...
Unfortunately, whether you're in STEM or humanities or social sciences, cutting corners...
... can potentially have deleterious impacts. I highlight and scribble with different colour highlighters and fineliners because that's how I learn better. raulpacheco.org/2019/02/readin…
You do you, of course.
But I maintain that one needs to spend time developing reading skills.
You do you, of course.
But I maintain that one needs to spend time developing reading skills.
Learning how to read is a bit like learning how to write (or how to ride a bike): you learn mostly by doing, following advice here and there, refining your skills and repeating ad nauseam.
In the same way you only learn how to write by writing, you can only learn how to read...
In the same way you only learn how to write by writing, you can only learn how to read...
... by reading. It takes time. Trust me, I'm revising two papers and it's taken me FOUR TIMES LONGER than I ever expected, and that's just on the revised literature review (this delay is also due to the fact that I don't want to screw up the revision and get a rejection!)
I read the same way I did when I was in grade school, through high school, undergrad, Masters, PhD and now as a professor.
You can read online. You can skim a lot. You can do whatever. But at some point you’ll need to read in DEPTH. </end thread>
You can read online. You can skim a lot. You can do whatever. But at some point you’ll need to read in DEPTH. </end thread>
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