One Million words.
It has been estimated that a college student, or an average man in a position of average responsibility may be expected to read up to at least one Million words in a single week. Its best to start now.
Get a watch with a sweep second hand and begin timing yourself. your reading must not be a burden but simply you should learn how to handle it. When ever the world has made new demands new methods have been developed to deal with the situation. you can master your reading by following it will help you to get to the core of the article, to evaluate the central idea, recognise details and to spot faulty or in consistent processes. at the end you will become a rapid and effective reader. But you have to practice. Best times of course is around 3 A.M in the morning.( I must mention an science exhibition i went to in Helsenki where they monitored eye fixation as you passed in front of the stall and gave a graphical picture to tell you what your eye saw while you walked and viewed the stall as you came to the end of the stall. it was amazing the picture the mind actually does not see everything the eye does.)
When your eyes move along a line, they do not travel in a single smooth sweep, but in a series of stops and starts called eye fixations. the more eye fixations you make on a single line the more longer it takes you to read it.
the first reading technique is phrase reading. do you read word by word or do you read phrase by phrase. you should remember a single word are rarely significant by themselves. but take on meaning only with context in the group.
the best way to train your eyes to read phrases is to practice space reading. i.e. rather than focusing your eyes directly on the print, lift them so they focus slightly above the line; allow your eyes to relax and spread your span of vision over several words so that you are reading a whole phrase at a time rather than a single word. this can also be practiced by making a hole in the center of a card and placing the reading material at about fourteen inches distance from your eye try reading it through the hole of the card. you will be able to count the eye movements you make while reading. also you could use the card to move faster and faster through the page while you repeat read you will be astonished how much progress you can make in a single day. Once you have understood what you have read move on, sometimes we unnecessarily spend more time than is required even on understanding the sentences and by practice this regression could be avoided. next step is to read not only word groups but meaningful word groups. look for the units of thought in a passage you are reading. you could box the thought units by a pencil mark. soon you will develop the awareness of logical phrase structure. practice this every day. the above two techniques have already helped you to become a faster reader.
Next step is Indentation.
Say when you focus on the first word of the sentencehalf of your vision span you will notice is on the blank space before the word same also as you end the sentence. try and manipulate the card movement a few words within the line of print. that way you can control eye span better. but never skip words. but train to read nothing but words. you could at first draw two light lines vertically on the page for eye fixation a few words before the line begins and so to before the line ends surely your speed has improved by now.
key word reading.
once you have mastered the art of phrase reading next is to (you have already marked the phrases by pencilyou will notice as you read the passage faster and faster you will concentrate on only the key words that ring out the meaning in the passage. key word and eye swing exercise over a passage will help.
you would now have developed a smooth reading rhythm and also reduced the number of stops your eye makes on each line of print.
happy reading.
It has been estimated that a college student, or an average man in a position of average responsibility may be expected to read up to at least one Million words in a single week. Its best to start now.
Get a watch with a sweep second hand and begin timing yourself. your reading must not be a burden but simply you should learn how to handle it. When ever the world has made new demands new methods have been developed to deal with the situation. you can master your reading by following it will help you to get to the core of the article, to evaluate the central idea, recognise details and to spot faulty or in consistent processes. at the end you will become a rapid and effective reader. But you have to practice. Best times of course is around 3 A.M in the morning.( I must mention an science exhibition i went to in Helsenki where they monitored eye fixation as you passed in front of the stall and gave a graphical picture to tell you what your eye saw while you walked and viewed the stall as you came to the end of the stall. it was amazing the picture the mind actually does not see everything the eye does.)
When your eyes move along a line, they do not travel in a single smooth sweep, but in a series of stops and starts called eye fixations. the more eye fixations you make on a single line the more longer it takes you to read it.
the first reading technique is phrase reading. do you read word by word or do you read phrase by phrase. you should remember a single word are rarely significant by themselves. but take on meaning only with context in the group.
the best way to train your eyes to read phrases is to practice space reading. i.e. rather than focusing your eyes directly on the print, lift them so they focus slightly above the line; allow your eyes to relax and spread your span of vision over several words so that you are reading a whole phrase at a time rather than a single word. this can also be practiced by making a hole in the center of a card and placing the reading material at about fourteen inches distance from your eye try reading it through the hole of the card. you will be able to count the eye movements you make while reading. also you could use the card to move faster and faster through the page while you repeat read you will be astonished how much progress you can make in a single day. Once you have understood what you have read move on, sometimes we unnecessarily spend more time than is required even on understanding the sentences and by practice this regression could be avoided. next step is to read not only word groups but meaningful word groups. look for the units of thought in a passage you are reading. you could box the thought units by a pencil mark. soon you will develop the awareness of logical phrase structure. practice this every day. the above two techniques have already helped you to become a faster reader.
Next step is Indentation.
Say when you focus on the first word of the sentencehalf of your vision span you will notice is on the blank space before the word same also as you end the sentence. try and manipulate the card movement a few words within the line of print. that way you can control eye span better. but never skip words. but train to read nothing but words. you could at first draw two light lines vertically on the page for eye fixation a few words before the line begins and so to before the line ends surely your speed has improved by now.
key word reading.
once you have mastered the art of phrase reading next is to (you have already marked the phrases by pencilyou will notice as you read the passage faster and faster you will concentrate on only the key words that ring out the meaning in the passage. key word and eye swing exercise over a passage will help.
you would now have developed a smooth reading rhythm and also reduced the number of stops your eye makes on each line of print.
happy reading.
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