Is textbooks torturing you? With this techniques now you will be a master of textbooks!
1.Analyze your place and time to read: If you’ve been reading for long hours, the reason that you have troubles to understand can be mental exhaustion or if you are in a place that loud, distracting, you still can have troubles to understand.
2.Explain every paragraph by your own words: If you are reading a complex scientific article, it will be helpful to explain expressions with your own sentences to make it simple.
3.Read out loud the hard chapters: This may be helpful to settle in your mind the chapters that you think that you did not understand.
4.Read again and again the hard and complex chapters: Sometimes, reading the chapter again and again makes it simple to understand it better and complete; especially in complex sentences and paragraphs.
5.Lower your reading speed: Sometimes, slowing down your reading speed and passing over the keywords again without skipping will help you to realize the parts that you missed and reach the concentration that you need.
6.Convert the titles to the question sentences: Then, target to finding the answer to the question while you are reading the text below the title. Write the answer or underline it.
7.Summarize the main points: This will help you to create a scheme on your mind, settle this ideas sequenced and organized on your mind.
8.Emphasize the key ideas: After you read a chapter go back,ask yourself what is the main point. Determining clearly what is exactly meant to be told strengthens understanding and remembering.
9.Take notes to the corner of the book: Short notes that will you remind you the important points will help you to understand and speeds up to remember after you read.
10.Determine if you have the basic knowledge about the subject: Authors assumes that their readers have the basic knowledge and accumulation about the subject they are writing about. If you don’t have the basic knowledge about the subject you are reading, it can be hard to understand, even impossible.
Kathleen McWhorten
