The Study Smorgasborg has reprinted a set of 10 guidelines for reading non fiction by Paul Edwards of the University of Michigan.
Guidelines include:
- Read the whole book.
- Decide how much time you will spend.
- Have a strategy.
- Read actively.
- Read it three times.
- Read the parts with the highest information content first.
- Mark the book.
- Know the author(s)
- Know the intellectual context.
- Use your unconscious mind.
See the full article at The Study Smorgasborg.
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I’ve update the old “tried and true” SQ3R reading study-method for non-fiction to be a bit more in line with current reading research. I call it PQ RAR. Any comments would be helpful on this latest revision.
Thanks,
Mark Pennington
MA Reading Specialist