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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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  • I am a relatively fast reader. From the mistakes I tend to make, I have recognised that I use word shape and the initial and final letters to ascertain what any word is. I believe that this is a common method. This makes reading very fast and easy, at the cost of the occasional mistake.

    For novel words, I tend to use mnemonic phrases. I can still remember the name of a membrane protein that acts as a potassium transporter (and is an antibiotic) from my undergraduate zoology forty years ago. It is called valinomycin. I am a big Tolkien fan, so remembered it as Valinor my sin - from Morgoth's destruction of the trees of Valinor, Telperion, the Silver Tree, and Laurelin, the Gold Tree.

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  • I am a relatively fast reader. From the mistakes I tend to make, I have recognised that I use word shape and the initial and final letters to ascertain what any word is. I believe that this is a common method. This makes reading very fast and easy, at the cost of the occasional mistake.

    For novel words, I tend to use mnemonic phrases. I can still remember the name of a membrane protein that acts as a potassium transporter (and is an antibiotic) from my undergraduate zoology forty years ago. It is called valinomycin. I am a big Tolkien fan, so remembered it as Valinor my sin - from Morgoth's destruction of the trees of Valinor, Telperion, the Silver Tree, and Laurelin, the Gold Tree.

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