It's already long known that reading is one of most activities that can lead you closer to be successful, be wiser, and be more knowledgeable. Andrew Merle stated in The Huffington Post, "A study of 1,200 wealthy people found that they all have reading as a pastime in common". This is one of so many valid proofs spreading around about how powerful is the effect of reading a lot. It also mentioned, "reading is a key part of their (wealthy people) success". Some few examples of successful people who spend their time for reading are; Bill Gates reads about 50 books per year, Mark Cuban reads more than 3 hours every day, Elon Musk is an avid reader, Mark Zuckerberg resolved to read a book every 2 weeks throughout 2015, and Oprah Winfrey selects one of her favorite books every month for her Book Club members to read and discuss. Those people, who success and also an avid reader, have the common following traits:
Here is now my summary from College Reading book of 1st chapter that talk about what is the reading itself, process about the reading, the factors in reading, and how to enhance our reading skill! To learn something new, you need to connect it to something you already know. Making this connection helps you learn the new idea or material more naturally and easily. (It means you have to relate it with your prior knowledge you obtained before in your daily life such as environment or educational institution). What is Reading? Reading is a skill learned late in human history. Reading requires skills that have to be learned, and college-level reading requires additional skills. Reading is complicated, and if you don't know any reading strategies, such as vocabulary development, locating main ideas and details, identifying implied main ideas, and textbook marking, college reading will be especially challenging. Reading is:
Critical Reading and Metacognition Critical Reading (a complex thinking technique that involves discovering and taking apart an author's meaning, evaluating the author's meaning based on established standards, and incorporating the meaning into the ideas you already know). Critical reading goes beyond basic understanding and requires more strategies, such as:
Reading is an Active Process Reading is an active process that depends on both an author's ability to communicate meaning using words and your ability to create meaning from those words. Active reading (applying strategies to stay engaged with text and to keep thinking about the information) requires that you purposely do something with the reading material to help you remember it. Several examples of active reading strategies that will be addressed in this book include:
***Why You are Already a Natural Learner: Growing Dendrites ***As you work with, experience, explore, examine, think about, try to figure out, and practice a specific skill or concept, brain cells (neurons) in your brain grow new branches and twigs (dendrites) that connect that new knowledge, concept, or skill. The Natural Human Learning Process (NHLP) It is important to know these major points about learning:
***There is a natural human sequence of stages of learning: 1. motivation (wanting to or having to learn something) 2. practice (trying it) 3. more practice (improving, gaining confidence) 4. more practice (more understanding, some success) 5. more skill (more success, becoming natural) 6. mastery (able to teach it, able to build on it) Reading with Concentration Engaging with new material—discussing it, using it, or relating it to what you already know—is a very good strategy for concentrating. Research is clear that you must concentrate on doing something with the new information you are reading in order to learn, understand, and remember it. The scientific term for the type of concentration you need in school is selective attention. Managing your attention is managing your concentration and focus. Here are some ways to fight boredom when it occurs in school:
Fighting Distracters There are two types of distracters: Internal distracters (things that come from within you, like feelings, emotions, or thoughts, that prevent you from being able to focus on your reading) are those things that come from within you such as hunger, worry, daydreaming, boredom, money concerns, anger over a recent fight, price of gasoline, excitement about an upcoming event, or fear of failure. External distracters (things in your environment that prevent you from being able to focus on your reading) are those that come from the environment such as music, television, family conversations, fighting, phone calls, traffic, weather (good or bad), or visitors. Learning is State Dependent Factors that Affect State The following factors (effects) can influence state: Environment effects: If you take a test in the same physical environment (room, place) as where you studied, you will perform better. That is because the environment is encoded into the brain along with the learning. Emotion effects: Memory, as well as learning, is state dependent. If you are in a sad state, you are going to start remembering sad events because the sad state of mind triggers the sad memories. That can lead to a vicious downward spiral where the sadder you feel, the more you unconsciously retrieve sad memories, and, therefore, you feel even sadder Pathway effects: auditory (hearing) and visual (seeing). If you learn the material by the auditory pathway, it will be easier for you to recall it by remembering what you heard. However, if you learn it visually, it will be easier to recall it by remembering what you saw. If you study using both pathways, remembering both what you heard and what you saw, then you increase your chance of being able to remember the material. Habits to Enhance Your Reading
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【増原 紀花】 / Norika R. Masuhara
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