Reading Academically

Reading Academically

Description of this Guide

In this guide we shall examine your starting points, the skills you use and the way in which you go about research reading for academic purposes. We look at strategies and systems to improve your efficiency and effectiveness. We explore how you can improve your reading skills to become more critical. The chapter will help you to interact more effectively with texts and articles.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify what reading skills you currently use.

2. Develop your understanding of how to develop critical reading skills .

3. Introduce you to a system (Quasar Method) for greater interactivity with texts and articles.

4. Develop strategies for monitoring your reading styles.

Contents

1. Introduction to the QUASAR method – an explanation of a method to increase interactivity and develop critical reading skills

1. Am I an interactive reader? A self audit of how reading is tackled.

2. Characteristics of ‘surface and deep’ approaches to reading

2. Reflecting on your reading style now

1. Find out if you need to increase your efficiency

2. Find out how to improve interactivity with text

3. Find out how to improve critical reading skills

3. Being an efficient reader

1. How fast do I read?

2. Getting information from text quickly

3. Finding your way around texts

4. Is the text suitable for my purposes?

4. Active reading

1. Being an active reader

2. Developing reading strategies

3. Reading journal articles

5.0 Being a critical reader

6.0 Taking reading skills forward

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Reading Academically

1.0 Introduction to the QUASAR Method

Reading for academic and research purposes is very different from leisure reading. It is important that you develop and improve your skills for reading academically so that you are more efficient...