Good morning Reading review

Productivity Member Writing
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Morning reading.

It’s important to note that texts usually contain interconnected ideas and concepts that build off one another. And to truly understand these connections, requires attention to finer detail.

Approaching a text with a slow focused and sustainable pace is adequate to unravel all the intricacies, as speed reading is not necessarily a required facet of reading, despite all the hype.

Making inferences, or extracting insights and ideas requires your full attention, while avoiding distractions that can hinder your concentration. Relating the information that you extract to your own personal knowledge is a process known as synthesis.

This means one will incorporate data into a framework that is already established, within your memory. Making unique connections to your own ideas and thought’s is an impressive feat, as this implies you are already on a solid trajectory to deep comprehension.

Once the material or text is fully conceptualized and understood at its elementary level, the brain can continue to elicit information from the text and uncover more connections and details through repeated readings of the same text.

This is known as iterative reading. Essentially this practice entails one to revise their understanding through multiple readings, uncovering the dynamic nature and robust quantity of information that are infused through a reading.

It’s important to pay close attention to the use of language and grammatic formations and sentence structures. As this will internalize your understanding of properly devised language, which ultimately assists in developing your writing and speaking abilities, as well as increase your capacity to comprehend increasingly complex material.

Deep immersion, means one will apply considerable efforts in decoding and extracting the most important information within a reading.

This submerged approach in the ocean of context, will undoubtedly lead to unique novel interpretations within and outside the text. If the text is providing insightful and emotionally resonating feelings, this deep engagement is worth the cognitive effort.

It’s important to learn new words or terminology by observing how these words are used in context. By observing a sentence with unfamiliar words, one can narrow down the meaning and intonation implied through each term, by analyzing how these words are utilized within the structure of the text.

Finally remember to choose material that you find personally engaging, or important texts that you feel contribute to areas of knowledge that you consider worth exploring.

By rereading, and spending ample time making connections within every sentence or segment of the text, deep reading will afford you with important skills that can be applied to future reading sessions as well as induce intellectual qualities that are applicable in and outside of the literary landscape.

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Here is where I disagree, contingently.

I have been called on, way too many times, to evaluate writings. I find that in order to evaluate any writing, I need to understand the central point of the writing (I need to know this so that I can judge the work as a success or failure). Most of the time, authors leave you in the dark, as though it is “fun” to watch a reader discover what you are saying. This defect can be guarded against if the author starts by clearly saying the intended point. On the other hand, I don’t see any way that Andy Weir could have presented a useful one-paragraph guide to Project Hail Mary, so sometimes “the point” is supposed to be a mystery and the experience if under the author’s selective control.

Anyhow, speed reading gives you a cognitive advantage, in allowing you to construct a model of “the point” of a writing, which provides the cognitive framework required for sensible slow, in-depth reading. My corollary recommendation is to engage in increasingly-slower reading where you first try to discern “the point”, then the primary syllogistic components, and eventually the nit-picky details about hyper-concrete claims and the evidence for the claim. If you start by questioning every word, you will not actually understand the meaning of the 100,000 words that form “the reading”.