Wouldn't it be nice if you could read through books in a fraction of the time it takes you now?
By Michael Masterman
Speed reading is a much simpler process than many people realize. We read the way we do for two reasons: the first is that we are trying to hear what we're reading, internalizing every word; the second is that we've been trained to read carefully so that we don't miss anything. But both of these have the same effect; they slow us down!
Depending on your age, you may have been reading this way for ten, twenty, thirty years or more, long enough for it to become a well-ingrained habit. But the good news is that it only takes a short time to learn to read in a new way.
One thing that slows us down is the way our eyes move across the page. By training your eyes to move more quickly, you can learn to read faster.
Try this technique yourself to see just how easy it is to perform...
• Use the index and middle fingers of your left hand to scroll across the page from left to right. Move across and down the page in a zigzag motion.
• Follow these hand movements with your eyes, focusing on the words just above the fingers. Don't worry about reading the words just yet but simply try to keep up with your hand movements.
• Continue to scroll across and down, zigzagging across the page, following your fingers with your eyes in a smooth, steady motion.
• Practice this hand-eye coordination technique for a couple of pages; then push your self to go a little faster.
• Turn the pages with your right hand, which helps you go faster and keeps the flow going smoothly.
This simple technique will have you doubling or tripling your reading speed in minutes!
When your eyes follow your hands it prevents them from stopping in certain places where they might otherwise be tempted to re-read passages. It also helps you overcome the need to internalise what you are reading.
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Sunday 8 February 2009
Speed Reading Newspapers and Magazine: 3 Tips to Getting all the Education You Need from News Journals Quickly
How to use speed reading to blaze through newspapers or magazines
by Ibraheem Dooba
This article will show you three techniques you can use to save more than half of the time you use in reading newspapers. You will not only save time, but also your focus will increase and you’ll have fun reading even the uninteresting reports.
Read the first paragraph
The reason why journalistic writing is called ‘history in a hurry’ is because of its wont to quickly condense vast information in a very small space. This plays to the advantage of the harassed reader who wants to stay current but has very little time to read.
Often all you need to understand a news piece is the first paragraph. Here the reporter will tell you what’s happening, who it’s happing to and where it’s happening. Sometimes you don’t even need to read the entire paragraph because the first sentence or the first couple of sentences give you all the information.
If you still have more time you can move on to step two; otherwise, you can stop reading.
Read the last paragraph
Some news pieces are follow-ups of events that were earlier reported. In such a situation, the first paragraph may not give you all the information you need. But the last paragraph will do the job. It’s usually in the last paragraph that the user is given the background information that leads to the story.
Read the “quotes”
After you’ve read the first and last paragraphs and you still feel you need more information or have more time to play with, you can dabble into middle of the piece by reading the direct speech of the sources of the news item.
In all forms of writing where quotations are used, the writer leads the reader into the quotes and then leads the reader out. This (leading) takes too much space and therefore, robs the reader out of some precious time.
Fortunately, you’re intelligent enough to understand what the subject or the source is saying without any interpretation from the reporter. So glide directly to the quotation marks and read what’s within them.
Conclusion
Read the first and the last paragraphs. Then read the quotations. If you follow these steps, it’s possible to get about 80 per cent of a news piece. And it’s rare to find a report that’s compelling to the extent that you want to get more than 80 per cent out of it.
For more tips on how you can instantly triple your reading speed,
Click this link for free no obligation articles. Yours for free by visiting Speed Reading Secrets
by Ibraheem Dooba
This article will show you three techniques you can use to save more than half of the time you use in reading newspapers. You will not only save time, but also your focus will increase and you’ll have fun reading even the uninteresting reports.
Read the first paragraph
The reason why journalistic writing is called ‘history in a hurry’ is because of its wont to quickly condense vast information in a very small space. This plays to the advantage of the harassed reader who wants to stay current but has very little time to read.
Often all you need to understand a news piece is the first paragraph. Here the reporter will tell you what’s happening, who it’s happing to and where it’s happening. Sometimes you don’t even need to read the entire paragraph because the first sentence or the first couple of sentences give you all the information.
If you still have more time you can move on to step two; otherwise, you can stop reading.
Read the last paragraph
Some news pieces are follow-ups of events that were earlier reported. In such a situation, the first paragraph may not give you all the information you need. But the last paragraph will do the job. It’s usually in the last paragraph that the user is given the background information that leads to the story.
Read the “quotes”
After you’ve read the first and last paragraphs and you still feel you need more information or have more time to play with, you can dabble into middle of the piece by reading the direct speech of the sources of the news item.
In all forms of writing where quotations are used, the writer leads the reader into the quotes and then leads the reader out. This (leading) takes too much space and therefore, robs the reader out of some precious time.
Fortunately, you’re intelligent enough to understand what the subject or the source is saying without any interpretation from the reporter. So glide directly to the quotation marks and read what’s within them.
Conclusion
Read the first and the last paragraphs. Then read the quotations. If you follow these steps, it’s possible to get about 80 per cent of a news piece. And it’s rare to find a report that’s compelling to the extent that you want to get more than 80 per cent out of it.
For more tips on how you can instantly triple your reading speed,
Click this link for free no obligation articles. Yours for free by visiting Speed Reading Secrets
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