Reading

Key points

Reading for study purposes is not merely a matter of passing your eyes over hundreds of words. It is a set of practices which enable you to engage with the ideas in a text, including:

• setting targets
• underlining or highlighting as you read
• asking questions to make yourself think about what you read
• stopping to look ahead or look back when you lose the thread
• reading critically
• monitoring your progress from time to time, and
• changing tack when things are not going well.

You need to experiment with different ways of doing things, in order to develop a robust, flexible, all-round style.

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