Smart Reading

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Smart Reading

• Reading Faster and smarter with improved
  comprehension
• Dr. Ed Lyell

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Bus 279 Smart Reading

• Textbook
• Speed Reading for Business The Skills you need
  to Succeed in the Business World
• Steve Moidel, 2nd ed.
• Barrons Success Guide

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Smart Reading

• Effort Required
• Lots of reading
• Can be textbooks
• Pre-test for initial speed and comprehension
• Learn and practice techniques
• Daily Progress Journal
• Weekly Speed and comprehension tests
• Almost self graded pass fail.

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Smart Reading

• 1. Set Goals
• Realistic, measurable, specific
• Act as if your goal has been accomplished
• Right and Left Brain Used
• Let no one discourage you

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Smart Reading

• Current Reading Problems
• Reading Slowly
• Third grade techniques
• Loosing Track
• Reading MORE carefully
• Highlighters

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Smart Reading

• Six Major Reading Problems
• 1. Word by Word Reading
• 2. Lack of Concentration
• 3. Sub Vocalization Your Inner Voice
• Speak at 120 wpm, inner speak at 200 wpm
• 4. Inadequate Vocabulary
• 5. Conscious or Unconscious Regression
• 6. Slow Recovery Time

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AbstractingEye AccessingLayered ReadingNote
taking
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ABSTRACTING

• Reference is not the Object General Semantics
• Grouping and Labeling based on linguistic
  experience
• English, Arab, Asian, Romance, math, music
• Mono versus multi-lingual

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Levels of Abstraction

• Sets of atoms, electrons, etc
• Actual Cow being viewed
• Bessie
• Cow
• Livestock
• Farm Asset
• Asset
• Wealth

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Eye Accessing

• Constructed Images
• Constructed Sounds
• Feelings
• Remembered Images
• Remembered Sounds
• Internal Dialogue

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Layered Reading

• See and Accept words and phrases outside normal
  expectancy
• Accept visual, not auditory, reassurance as you
  read
• Learn to Read Vertically
• Understand the gestalt of what you read

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Comprehension

• Level 1 overview 10-20
• Level 2 Fast Preview 2 seconds per page
• Key phrases 20-40
• Level 3 Careful Preview 4 seconds per page
• Patterns, themes 40-60
• Level 4 Faster reading
• Seeing details 60-80
• Level 5 Fast but comfortable
• 80-100 comprehension

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Note Taking

• New Way with Mental Printout
• Slash Pattern
• Ideas on Paper
• Main Features
• Methods
• Uses
• Shopping List as practice

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Smart Reading

• Double your speed in one hour
• Quick Start Reading Techniques
• Hand Eye Motions
• Breaking in a Book
• Over viewing and File creation
• Page turning
• Hand motions
• Practice, Practice, Practice

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Smart Reading

• Practicing Speed plus Recall (Techniques)
• Thumb and index finger
• Line by Line
• Slash Memory
• Recognition and Recall
• Visualization
• Picture Better Concentration
• Bye-Bye Daydreams
• Picture worth a thousand words

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Smart Reading

• Chapter 7 Opening Your Focus
• 1. Question Mark Hand Motion
• 2. Horseshoe or U Motion
• 3. Tracer Hand Motion
• Practice, Practice, Practice page 74

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