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		<description><![CDATA[Reading Strategies Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently Good reading strategies help you to read in a very efficient way. Using them, you aim to get the maximum benefit from your reading with the minimum effort. This section will show you how to use 6 different strategies to read intelligently. Reading Strategies Reading Efficiently by Reading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imperativegoals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054713&amp;post=5&amp;subd=imperativegoals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><font color="#004080"><span class="heading1"><font color="#003399">Reading Strategies<font size="-1"><br />
Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently</font></font></span></font></h1>
<p class="bodytext">Good reading strategies help you to read in a very efficient way. Using them, you aim to get the maximum benefit from your reading with the minimum effort. This section will show you how to use 6 different strategies to read intelligently.</p>
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<h1><span class="heading11"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#003399;"><font face="Arial">Reading Strategies</font></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#003399;font-family:Arial;"><br />
<span class="heading11"><span style="color:#003399;">Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently</span></span></span><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"></span></h1>
<p><font size="2"><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial">Good reading strategies help you to read in a very efficient way. Using them, you aim to get the maximum benefit from your reading with the minimum effort. This section will show you how to use 6 different strategies to read intelligently.</font></font></font><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"> </span><span class="heading21"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong><font color="#003399" face="Arial">Strategy 1: Knowing what you want to know</font></strong></span></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><br />
</span><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial"><span class="bodytext1"><span style="font-size:10pt;">The first thing to ask yourself is: Why you are reading the text? Are you reading with a purpose or just for pleasure? What do you want to know after reading it?</span></span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"></span></font></font><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:3pt 0 2.25pt;" class="bodytext"><font size="2" color="#333333" face="Arial">Once you know this, you can examine the text to see whether it is going to move you towards this goal.</font></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;">An easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know whom the book is targeted at, and what it seeks to achieve. Chapter headings will give you an overall view of the structure of the subject.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;">Ask yourself whether the book meets your needs. Ask yourself if it assumes too much or too little knowledge. If the book isn&#8217;t ideal, would it be better to find a better one?</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span class="heading21"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong><font color="#003399" face="Arial">Strategy 2: Knowing how deeply to study the material</font></strong></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"><br />
Where you only need the shallowest knowledge of the subject, you can skim material. Here you read only chapter headings, introductions and summaries.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;">If you need a moderate level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text. Here you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You may then <a href="http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_03.htm"><font color="#006699">speed read</font></a> the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key words and concepts. At this level of looking at the document it is worth paying attention to diagrams and graphs.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;">Only when you need detailed knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text. Here it is best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject. This gives you an understanding of its structure, into which you can fit the detail gained from a full, receptive reading of the material. <a href="http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_02.htm"><font color="#006699">SQ3R</font></a> is a good technique for getting a deep understanding of a text.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span class="heading21"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong><font color="#003399" face="Arial">Strategy 3: Active Reading</font></strong></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"><br />
When you are reading a document in detail, it often helps if you highlight, underline and annotate it as you go on. This emphasizes information in your mind, and helps you to review important points later.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;">Doing this also helps to keep your mind focused on the material and stops it wandering.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="color:#333333;"><font face="Times New Roman">This is obviously only something to do if you own the document! If you own the book and find that active reading helps, then it may be worth photocopying information in more expensive texts. You can then read and mark the photocopies.</font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;">If you are worried about destroying the material, ask yourself how much your investment of time is worth. If the benefit you get by active reading reasonably exceeds the value of the book, then the book is disposable.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span class="heading21"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong><font color="#003399" face="Arial">Strategy 4: How to study different sorts of material</font></strong></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"><br />
Different sorts of documents hold information in different places and in different ways. They have different depths and breadths of coverage. By understanding the layout of the material you are reading, you can extract useful information much more efficiently.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>
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<td width="10" style="width:7.5pt;height:7.5pt;background-color:transparent;border:#e0dfe3;padding:0;"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"> </span></td>
<td width="283" vAlign="top" style="width:212.25pt;height:7.5pt;background-color:transparent;border:#e0dfe3;padding:0;"><font size="2"><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial"><em>Reading Magazines and Newspapers:</em><br />
These tend to give a very fragmented coverage of an area. They will typically only concentrate on the most interesting and glamorous parts of a topic &#8211; this helps them to sell copies! They will often ignore less interesting information that may be essential to a full understanding of a subject. Typically areas of useful information are padded out with large amounts of irrelevant waffle or with advertising.</font></font></font><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"> </span><font size="2"><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial">The most effective way of getting information from magazines is to scan the contents tables or indexes and turn directly to interesting articles. If you find an article useful, then cut it out and file it in a folder specifically covering that sort of information. In this way you will build up sets of related articles that may begin to explain the subject.</font></font></font></td>
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<p><font size="2"><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial">Newspapers tend to be arranged in sections. If you read a paper often, you can learn quickly which sections are useful and which ones you can skip altogether.</font></font></font><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><font size="2"><font color="#333333"><font face="Arial"><em>Reading</em><em> Individual Articles:</em><br />
Articles within newspapers and magazines tend to be in three main types:</font></font></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">News Articles:<br />
</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Here the most important information is presented first, with information being less and less useful as the article progresses. News articles are designed to explain the key points first, and then flesh them out with detail. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Opinion Articles:<br />
</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Opinion articles present a point of view. Here the most important information is contained in the introduction and the summary, with the middle of the article containing supporting arguments. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Feature Articles:<br />
</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">These are written to provide entertainment or background on a subject. Typically the most important information is in the body of the text.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;">If you know what you want from an article, and recognize its type, you can extract information from it quickly and efficiently.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span class="heading21"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong><font color="#003399" face="Arial">Strategy 5: Reading &#8216;whole subject&#8217; documents</font></strong></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"><br />
When you are reading an important document, it is easy to accept the writer&#8217;s structure of thought. This can mean that you may not notice that important information has been omitted or that irrelevant detail has been included. A good way of recognizing this is to compile your own table of contents before you open the document. You can then use this table of contents to read the document in the order that you want. You will be able to spot omissions quickly.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span class="heading21"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><strong><font color="#003399" face="Arial">Strategy 6: Using glossaries with technical documents</font></strong></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;"><br />
If you are reading large amounts of difficult technical material, it may be useful to photocopy or compile a glossary. Keep this beside you as you read. It will probably also be useful to note down the key concepts in your own words, and refer to them when necessary.</span><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright so i started this blog because i think not only blacks ,but people who are minorities and who are different can come here and feel encourage to move forward everyday with the goals that they have which is imperative. i may not know you  however one thing i do know is that what you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imperativegoals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2054713&amp;post=3&amp;subd=imperativegoals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Alright so i started this blog because i think not only blacks ,but people who are </em></p>
<p><em>minorities and who are different can come here and feel encourage to move forward everyday with the goals that they have which is imperative. i may not know you </em></p>
<p><em> </em><em>however one thing i do know is that what you want to do in life is/now important&#8212;sit back for moment and just say it&#8221; My goals,  yes is important&#8221;. </em></p>
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