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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?

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  • This sounds a clever and interesting adaptation to help yourself. It must be quite time consuming and effortful.

    Most text contains lots of words, but few concepts. It is why they can be summarised and shrunk down. Most is detail to expand, support and illustrate a point. I think you are not really supposed to think about every word. I am a little slow. I also have a habit of reading sentences multiple times.

    You may find if you read something quickly without worrying too much, you get the main points.

    In a lot of magazine articles the first and last paragraphs are enough to decide if it is worth reading the rest.

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  • This sounds a clever and interesting adaptation to help yourself. It must be quite time consuming and effortful.

    Most text contains lots of words, but few concepts. It is why they can be summarised and shrunk down. Most is detail to expand, support and illustrate a point. I think you are not really supposed to think about every word. I am a little slow. I also have a habit of reading sentences multiple times.

    You may find if you read something quickly without worrying too much, you get the main points.

    In a lot of magazine articles the first and last paragraphs are enough to decide if it is worth reading the rest.

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