Tuesday, July 9, 2013

How To Read Faster

By Terrance V. Cruz


If you're an average reader, you must be looking for means and ways to read faster. In today's time, when we have to comprehend a large volume of data or long emails on daily basis, it becomes very necessary to increase our reading speed in order to meet deadlines. Along with this, we also need to be very efficient in comprehending or interpreting the data.
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What is Speed Reading? Speed reading was discovered by several psychologists, educational experts and the US Air Force with the use of the tachistoscope. However, the term was defined by school teacher: Evelyn Woods. The term defines the ability to read words at high rate of speed, with or without affecting comprehension rates.

Woods found that using her hand as a pacer, whilst turning the pages, she was able to increase her reading speed. It was from these results, that Evelyn Woods created her speed reading program; Reading Dynamics.

Stop vocalizing the text if you're in a habit of doing that. It decreases your reading speed and looks bad when you're in office or at a public place. If you think you'll lose concentration, use you finger instead in order to learn how to maintain proper eye control.

Broaden your sight angle: Speed reading will require you to broaden your sight angle when looking at a sentence. Mastering this technique will make it easier for you to glance over a body of text once and still get to read three or more words. In addition, scanning and skimming will become easy. Using these techniques will help you to read and comprehend most of the text a lot quicker. Keep in mind that speed reading exercises are very important when you want to develop a fast reading habit.

Here is an important tip to remember when learning how to read fast.You should never vocalize or sub-vocalize as these two actions will prevent you from improving your comprehension and reading speed. Vocalizing is reading out loud or moving your lips to match words while reading. Sub-vocalizing is when you are trying to pronounce the words in your mind. Once you look at the material as something that you should understand instead of pronounce, your comprehension and reading skills will improve for the better.

Avoid re-reading the text. Sometimes, we read particular sentences again and again in order to gain clarity. This decreases our reading speed. Leave the text for a while and gain understanding from the rest of the content.Other than this, you can opt for online courses that help you learn how to read faster. There are several types of interactive audio exercises available that help in speed reading. You may also read articles and other informative content online to know tools and techniques to increase your reading speed.




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