QUICK TIPS TO READ AND EFFECTIVE : understanding reading

UNDERSTANDING READING

Reading comprehension is closely related to efforts to understand the essentials of what he read. The definition of reading comprehension or reading comprehension is the ability lo understand the main idea, important details, and the whole notion. This understanding is closely related to the ability to remember the reading material. Effective efforts to understand and remember longer can be done with

• organize reading material in easily understandable terms.

• The fact that one associate with other facts or connect it with facts and context.

In reading comprehension level is also associated with the wearing reading system. Generally people tend to immediately prepare to read the text without precondition so that the readings are to be effective.

There are several systems to read, among other

1. SQ3R: survey-question-read-recite-review

2. SQ4R: survey-question-read-recite-review-rite

3. POINT: purpose-overview-Interpret-note-test

4. OK4R: overview, key ideas, read-summarize-test


Any system that many people knew and used the SQ3R. SQ3R reading system proposed by Francis P. Robinson in 1941. SQ3R is a reading process which consists of five steps, namely

1. SURVEY

Survey or a technique known prabaca material before reading it in full. Srvei goal is

1. accelerate the meaning
2. get abstract
3. learn important ideas
4. see the structure (organization) of the literature.
5. Getting interests careful attention to the readings.
6. Makes it easy to remember more and understand more easily.

There are several techniques in conducting surveys. For each type of reading, a different survey techniques.

1. Survey techniques book

• Browse the table of contents
• Read the introduction
• See table, graph
• Choice of the appendix
• Browse index
  

2. Survey technique chapters

• See the first and last paragraphs
• See summary
• See the subtitle
  

3. Engineering survey article

• Read the title
• Read the subtitle
• Observe the table
• Read the introduction
• Read the first sentence of section
• Make a decision (read it or not)
  

4. Survey techniques clipping

• Note the title
• Note the author
  

2. QUESTION

In this step we ask lots of questions about the content of reading.

3. READ

Be aware that reading is the third step, not the first step.

4. RECITE / Recall

At this stage you can make notes as necessary

5. REVIEW

At this stage you try to remember back to reread the passage you read.



Finding the Main Idea Discourse

Understanding a text means to understand the main ideas presented by the author to the text. Therefore the focus should be placed on the reading of an effort to understand the main idea the author. The underlying idea of a book can be identified in

• general overview in the beginning of the book

• overview chapter

• overview of the chapter

• main idea paragraph

Sometimes people are too detailed to waste time before he found the idea anyway. Details are facts or information are packaged in a paragraph to prove, describe, and provide examples that support the main idea. Any way to recognize important detail is to look for clues used by authors to help readers, for example by

• written in italics

• underlined

• bold

• numbers spiked

• written with the code letter (a, b, c, d)

Key words are the guiding words to help find the writer's mind. Keywords include

• expression suppression

• words that changed the direction of

• the illustration

• postscript

• the conclusion

Continue to CRITICAL READING

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