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Mastering Selective Reading Skills

The document provides tips for selective reading in order to reduce reading loads for students. It advises students to only closely read texts that are important to the professor or themselves by skimming other parts. It also recommends overcoming fears of failure or not being prepared by trusting one's judgment about what material is essential versus repetitive. The selective reading approach aims to help students focus their time on high priority tasks.

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Mastering Selective Reading Skills

The document provides tips for selective reading in order to reduce reading loads for students. It advises students to only closely read texts that are important to the professor or themselves by skimming other parts. It also recommends overcoming fears of failure or not being prepared by trusting one's judgment about what material is essential versus repetitive. The selective reading approach aims to help students focus their time on high priority tasks.

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  • Selective Reading

Selective Reading

Reduce your reading load by becoming a selective reader. Some of the best advice students report
learning while in college or graduate school is that they cannot read all of the assigned reading. Thus
becoming a selective reader is important factor for academic success.

Read Efficiently by close reading only important texts. Ask yourself:

 Is this text important to the professor?

 Is it important to me? Will I use it in a paper?

 Does it repeat previous material?

Read Selectively within texts:

 BE AN ACTIVE READER: choose carefully what you will read closely.

 SKIM THE TEXT whenever the author is off topic, providing supporting background or offering
repetitious detail.

 BE BOLD: trust your instinct in regard to what material is important and what is filler.

Overcome Fears that interfere with your good judgment including:

Fear of classroom failure: "Everyone will know what's going on except me."

Ask yourself: do most of the students appear to complete all the reading?

Fear of failing in front of the professor: "The professor will know I didn't do the reading."

Ask yourself: can you become familiar with the material and say something in class without close
reading absolutely everything?

Fear that even though something didn't get discussed, it will be tested: materials that have been
focused on in reading and in class will be more heavily tested.

Ask yourself: is an extra point on an exam worth the extra hours of reading when there are high priority
tasks to attend to?

Adapted from: Kornhauser, A. (1993). How to Study,(University of Chicago Press;


Pauk, W. (1989). How to Study in College (4th Ed.), Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin;
Reynolds, J.A. (1996) College Success: Study Strategies and Skills, Boston, MA, Allyn & Bacon.

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