2.Why Not Speed Up Your Reading? 能 Leonard A.Stevens
2. Why Not Speed Up Your Reading? Leonard A. Stevens
Contents 1.Text Analysis 2.Summary 3.Exercises
Contents 1. Text Analysis 2.Summary 3.Exercises
Text In the information era,those who have quickest access to information often remain unbeatable.Reading is the major means by which we obtain information and improving reading speed is probably one of the best skills we can acquire at college.Read this essay and you will learn of ways to increase your reading speed
Text In the information era, those who have quickest access to information often remain unbeatable. Reading is the major means by which we obtain information and improving reading speed is probably one of the best skills we can acquire at college. Read this essay and you will learn of ways to increase your reading speed
1. For many people today,reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up with their work they must read letters,reports,trade publications,interoffice communications:a never-ending flood of words.In getting a job or advancing in one,the ability to read and comprehend quickly can mean the difference between success and failure.Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are poor readers. 2. A few months ago a man who had been promoted to a top management job came to see Dr.Emmett A.Betts,director of Temple University's Reading Clinic.The first morning on his new job he had found a huge pile of mail on his desk.He realized it would take him most of the day just to read the letters;moreover,a similar pile would confront him every morning
1. For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up with their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications: a never-ending flood of words. In getting a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend quickly can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are poor readers. 2. A few months ago a man who had been promoted to a top management job came to see Dr. Emmett A. Betts, director of Temple University’s Reading Clinic. The first morning on his new job he had found a huge pile of mail on his desk. He realized it would take him most of the day just to read the letters; moreover, a similar pile would confront him every morning
3. A reading test showed that the executive was reading only about 160 words a minute.He was an engineer who had spent years plowing through difficult technical material.He had been forced to go slowly to get the meaning.Soon he began reading everything.even light fiction,at the same turtle's pace. Dr.Betts diagnosed the executive's reading problem as a common one---inability to "shift gears."If the subject matter were difficult,careful reading was justified;when it was easy, he should have zipped through it
3. A reading test showed that the executive was reading only about 160 words a minute. He was an engineer who had spent years plowing through difficult technical material. He had been forced to go slowly to get the meaning. Soon he began reading everything, even light fiction, at the same turtle’s pace. Dr. Betts diagnosed the executive’s reading problem as a common one---inability to “shift gears.” If the subject matter were difficult, careful reading was justified; when it was easy, he should have zipped through it