Active Reading
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking about active reading and critical reading techniques that we can use to study more effectively with the help of some research articles that I have found.
In the first article, I read called Critical Reading Techniques by The Open University. They said that “like many students, you might find that you are time-poor, and you will, therefore, need to be speedy and efficient in your reading. This section will help you become an efficient reader and information processor” to which I totally agree with the statement as I myself is one of those students who tend to be clueless in most of my work and have no clue how to work around it. This article will cover the following sections like how to read efficiently, how to read actively in an engaging way and critically process what you read. And I think the audience to which this article is addressed are students that are in third-level education but can also help students who are in secondary level education to help them how to study well and work efficiently which I think gives significance because of the following reasons I have said. I agree with the statement they mentioned “Making notes is an essential part of the reading process. If you read lots of material without making notes, you'll only forget what you have read and waste your time. Having said that, you should not dive straight into reading and notetaking, instead, you need first to stop and think about what you are doing. You need to adopt an efficient approach” because I personally think that taking notes helps with retaining information that you may need in the future. As well as reading notes thoroughly which I have never done ever in every subject that I try to study. The same site where I found the technique for critical reading took me to another article called Active reading which also talks about the points I have made.
In another article I found, which is called Using Student-Constructed Questions to Encourage Active Reading by Ernest Balajthy. He mentions that “When readers approach a text critically is as if they were continually asking themselves questions about how the text is structured, where its line of argument is headed, and how it relates to other texts and to life. This self-questioning affects what the reader learns from a text.” This is very much true, however; it differs from the other article as this one holds more information compared to the other.
To conclude, I must say everything that I have written down are the ones I find the most useful and the most challenging part about writing this post is that I had to find something to write about as everything is very important and simply picking one was the challenge in my opinion at least.
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