The Why & How
To read more efficiently, you should aim to get the right information, retain it, and do this third thing to your study time.
What is reduce?
If you are preparing for a multiple choice test, you should pay close attention to these.
What are details?
To stay on top of your work, you should aim to do your reading on this frequency.
What is daily?
Active reading is described as reading with this: the opposite of reading aimlessly.
What is intent?
Davidson argues that you should do the assigned reading at this time relative to the class lecture.
What is before class?
Instead of asking "why am I doing this reading?", you should ask how you are going to be this.
What is assessed?
If you are preparing to write an essay, you need a thorough knowledge of these.
What are main ideas?
"Read for 15 minutes" is an example of of this type of reading habit.
What is input-based?
What is a conversation?
This term describes the scientific phenomenon where your brain learns better when exposures to information are spread out over time.
What is the Spacing Effect?
College textbook reading is not like reading this type of daily publication.
What is a newspaper?
This type of reading is often required for class presentations and reports.
What is summarization?
"Write one page of notes" is an example of this type of reading habit.
What is output-based?
This physical act is a key component of interacting with the text during active reading.
What is taking notes?
This technique involves reading a chapter in its entirety without taking notes or highlighting (except for dense science/math)
What is Surveying?
When reading a textbook, you should read for this, rather than just getting the "gist."
What is application?
Daily Double!!!!
This specific academic setting requires the "evaluation of data" as a reason for reading.
What is a lab?
According to the notes, besides reading daily, you should also write down a small amount of these.
What are notes or summaries?
What is interacting?
To get a "quick" spaced exposure after your first full read, Davidson suggests reading only these parts of each paragraph.
What are topic sentences?
Daily Double!!!!
A strategic reader uses different these for different reading purposes.
What are strategies?
True or False: you should read exactly the same way for an essay as you do for a lab report.
What is false?
This type of habit (input or output) focuses on the result of the study session rather than the time spent.
What is output-based?
What are get the right information, retain information, and reduce study time?
Daily Double!!!!!
To truly master material for an exam, Davidson recommends aiming for this many total "spaced exposures."
What are eight to ten?