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Do you have particular strategies for reading and understanding text?

emanningis

How do you read and interpret text? (such as books or articles) 

I briefly describe aspects of how I do it below:

  • I always thought of myself as a slow reader, possibly with low working-memory as well (i.e. ability to remember most recent things).
  • It seems my mind works by remembering and questioning way too much, so the working memory is sort of overloaded.
  • When I'd compare to others, I'd generally be noticing useless details of the text: typos, repeated words or paragraphs.
  • To cope with this limitation, I resorted to mind maps, highlighting, rewriting, and also memorising.
  • These days, a technique that seems to help is to use either a glyph / drawing, or a short sentence per paragraph of text, and at the end writing a synthetic version myself (a new text).

I wonder how it is for you?

  • I too see myself as a slow reader. I think I read as if reading aloud, as I hesitate if it doesn't make sense. I also notice typos. If I come across an item of news for example and wonder about something related to that news, like where the place is or what something involved, I have to research to find out. That is one thing that the internet is useful for. I understand that most people don't do this. To me this gives a full picture and educates too.

    I do occasionally scan a piece of writing, usually if it is long and I may not be interested. I tend to mainly read short posts on here, as the long ones look like there is too much info. to take in, especially if I need to look up a word.