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Reading Skills
Along with the very important skills of managing time and making effective notes at university is the task of reading. As you make the transition to university learning, changes in the way you must structure your time are apparent; there is much to do and you may quickly realize that you must take on the responsibility for structuring study and leisure times to be effective. Often, too, the transition to large lecture halls and note-making from lectures may be new to you; you have made notes in class before, but keeping up with the pace and volume of material presented can be a real challenge. Likewise reading changes at university. For many students, though, the changes required are not so obvious as the sharp increase in reading load and difficulty.
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Academic English Skills (ULAB 1122)- Chapter 2= Reading Skills & Summarizing
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This chapter also contain two components that is reading skills and summarizing. Both this components need some methods. Reading skills the things I learnt is understanding main ideas, guessing meaning of words and also making inferences and drawing conclusion. These are the things that I learnt throughout that chapter. On the other perceptive the things that I learnt in summarizing are the main idea is the most important information or concept in a text or statement. Followed by sometimes the main idea is explicit and somtimes it is implied.
Summarizing Skills
Summarising what you have read is a good active reading strategy. It encourages you to focus as you read and to remember key points. When writing an essay you will often need to briefly summarise an author's argument in your own words to support your argument or provide a counter argument.
To help you summarise:
- Remember a summary should be brief.
- Use the author's conclusions and also look at introductions. These will have drawn together the ideas in the text.
- Look at the words you highlighted, or annotations you made as you read the article.
- You may choose to think about how you would explain what you have learnt to somebody else.Â
- Ask yourself questions to guide your summary: What? Why? When? Where? How?
Summarising what you have read is a good active reading strategy. It encourages you to focus as you read and to remember key points. When writing an essay you will often need to briefly summarise an author's argument in your own words to support your argument or provide a counter argument.