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Book A guide to getting the most out of academic reading Goal of academic reading Reading for information Before you read Pace Yourself Decide how much time you will spend and stick to your schedule ID: 556130

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Slide1

How to Read A

Book:

A guide to getting the most out of academic readingSlide2

Goal of academic reading: Reading for informationSlide3

Before you read: Slide4

Pace Yourself!

Decide how much time you will spend and stick to your scheduleSlide5

Learn about the author

Who is the author

What organizations do they belong to?

What is their field?

Gender? Race? Class? Political Affiliation?

Who paid for their work?

What audience is it for? Slide6

Learn about the Intellectual Context

What is the author’s academic discipline?

Does he or she belong to a particular schools of thought?

What, or whom, is the book responding to? Slide7

While You Read:Slide8

Read Your Book Three TimesSlide9

First time: DISCOVER

Use 5 to 10 percent of total time on DISCOVER stage

Read quickly

Mark headings, passages, and phrases that seem important

Generate questions to answer on your second readingSlide10

Second Time: UNDERSTAND

Use 70-80 percent of your time

Read in order to get a careful, critical, thoughtful grasp of the key points

Focus especially on finding the

THESIS

Evaluate the argument

Focus especially on the beginnings and ends of chapters and major sectionsSlide11

Third Time: RECALL and NOTE-TAKING

Use 10-20 percent of your time

Read in order to commit the book to memory

Take notes in your own words, no more than 1-3 pages per 100 pagesSlide12

Things to Keep in Mind:Slide13

Avoid Marathon Reading

You’ll get more out of three one-hour readings than one three-hour readingSlide14

Focus on Parts with High Information ContentSlide15

Non-fiction books and their parts often have the “hourglass” structure.

Use the table of content, index, bibliography, preface, introduction, abstract, conclusion, graphs and figures to gain an overview of the topic and argument of the bookSlide16

Mark up Your Reading (but not library books!)

Don’t mark too much. No more than 2 to 3 marks per page

The point is to distill and reduce so that you can quickly find what you needSlide17

Use a Citation Manager

Software like

Endnote

and

Zotero

let you keep track of your sources and saves you time by formatting citations for you

As a student you can download Endnotes for free from the OIT website.

Zotero

is free to download at zotero.org.Slide18

Use Your Unconscious Mind

Read a book in several short sessions, giving your mind time to process it in betweenSlide19

Rehearse the Material

Rehearse what you’ve learnt, using multiple methods

Talk with others about the book

Draw diagrams

Imagine having a discussion with the author

Write about the bookSlide20

Learning to Read Takes Practice

Using these techniques will feel awkward at first

You will have to practice for several months before they come naturally

Hang in there! The rewards of reading well are worth it. Slide21

C

redits

This slide show is based on Paul N. Edwards’ “How to Read a Book, v5.0” (

http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf

)

Stack of books:

https://www.pexels.com/photo/books-school-stacked-closed-48126/

Text background:

http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=1057

Clock image:

Jihopgood

flicker account (

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jlhopgood/6795353385

)

Author image:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Cheryl_Hubbard_author.jpg

Question marks:

Véronique

Debord-Lazaro’s flicker account (

https://www.flickr.com/photos/debord/4932655275

)

Three game pieces:

http://www.public-domain-image.com/free-images/objects/toys/three-figures/attachment/three-figures

Vista:

Cleide

Isabel

’s flicker account (

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cleide_isabel/8210993517

)

Man with

colourful

bubbles:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mr_Pipo_thoughts.svg

Notebook:

https://www.pexels.com/photo/coffee-writing-computer-blogging-34658/

Table of contents:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/1523797880

Book with notes: David Mulder’s flicker account (

https://www.flickr.com/photos/113026679@N03/20621182143

)

Citation needed:

http://www.futureatlas.com

(

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Citation_needed%22.jpg

)

Unconscious mind painting: Eduard Tomek,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious#/media/File:3more.jpg

Child at piano:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zaui/4455991107/in/photostream/