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Textbook Reading...it's always a challenge, even for an avid reader like me. Textbook
reading when it comes to schoolbooks or something like that is always a challenge because it's
not something that you're always interested in. So, I have taken it as just part of my
study habits, I guess, to first of all look at my syllabus and my objectives cuz usually
every instructor will give you one, and that kind of leads and guides you what they actually want you to read cuz sometimes, especially,
um, especially books such as like biology or nursing books even, have like endless chapters, and you don't
always need necessarily to read the whole chapter. So, my guide...I use my objectives
as a guide to see what I'm gonna read. And before I get to class, I skim through the book, see
each topic line...do I understand it? If I don't, do I need to read further? So, I try to read
through the titles of each chapter and the headlines on each paragraph. And, if it's
something that you don't understand right off the bat, I would suggest skimming through
the paragraph, and then once you get to class, you'd be exposed to it. After class, you'll get back to it and you'll
find the informations that you don't, you didn't find in the beginning. And that puts everything all
together without having to read the whole chapter all at once and all in one sitting. Skimming should
be...every chapter, it should not be any more than 30 minutes, I would say. 20, 30 minutes is a good amount
of time to skim through, just to look at a big overview of the chapter. And, once you
figure all that out, it's easier to just go back to a certain topic and use the rest of
your time and read through that rather than using your whole hour reading the whole chapter
and not get any, anything from it. Or just get twenty-five percent out of the whole chapter!
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