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Title: Effective reading strategies


1
Effective reading strategies
  • Neil McLean
  • LSE Teaching and Learning Centre

2
Overview
  • Purpose
  • Reading for gist
  • Reading for specific information
  • Reading for argument
  • Sources
  • Practice

3
Purpose
  • Without knowing why youre reading you cant know
    how to read
  • Options include
  • For strategy / overview
  • For practical information
  • For general understanding
  • For clarity
  • For essay answer information

4
Types of reading
  • Skimming reading fast for gist
  • Intro / concl. / sub headings / first sentences
  • Scanning reading fast for specific information
  • Sub headings inside paragraphs
  • Intensive reading for deeper meaning
  • Find place as above voice / rhetorical flow

5
Rhetorical flows
  • Rhetoric is the flow of argument
  • The classic flow (para. order) is thesis
    justification support
  • Common approaches are knock downs, overview and
    implement, narrative / chronology / significance

6
Sources
  • Study guide
  • Further / supplementary reading
  • Reading a reading list
  • Purpose what are you looking for?
  • Kinds of text general intro / new research
  • Dates literature review vs. seminal texts
  • Titles topic / answering articles

7
Practice
  • Look at your copy of chapter 3
  • What does the tutor / examiner want you to know
    about?

8
Practice
  • Reading for gist
  • Does nationalism pose a threat to sovereignty?
  • answer reasons
  • (p. 35 task 2.)

9
Practice
  • Skim reading
  • What is the difference between a state and a
    sovereign state?
  • (p35 outcomes)

10
Practice
  • Reading for gist
  • Where is the info you need to answer exam
    question 2, p35?

11
Intensive reading - purpose
  • Look at the text excerpt
  • Read the intro, what will Fred Halliday do in
    this chapter?

12
Rhetorical flow
  • Make a note of the to and fro of his argument in
    paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 on pp 42 / 43

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Rhetorical flows (previewing)
  • Complete the notes by reading pp44/5
  • Main idea _____________________
  • 1.
  • 2.
  • 3.
  • 4.

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Conclusion
  • Know why youre reading
  • Organise how youll record the information you
    take
  • Read appropriately to your purpose
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