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Chapter 10 - How to Survive Academic Reading: Targeted Research and Active ReadingTip: Click on each link to expand and view the content. Click again to collapse. Printable Handouts and Checklists
Below are some easy to print handouts and checklists, which you can use to help improve your study.
Journal Articles
These journal articles have been chosen to give you a deeper understanding of the topics covered in this chapter and to help you read more widely. Click on the link below to access the journal article.
Web Links
Leeds University tutorial on academic reading (60 mins): Overwhelmed by the amount of reading you have to do and not sure how to manage it? Try this on-line tutorial http://skills.library.leeds.ac.uk/tutorials/reading_tutorial/player.html
Our interactive desk shows how to organise yourself for study – and reading http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/desk/desk.html Our writing space has links to our NoteMaker resource; a free write tool – so that you can practise quick writing about what you read; referencing resources; and much more. Explore it and see how useful it can be to you http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/connorj/WritingGroups/ Critical reading towards critical writing http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/reading-and-researching/critical-reading How to read an academic article http://www.lenmholmes.org.uk/students/how2read/how2read_a.htm How to read a research article http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba/495/howtoread.html Internet Detective: tutorial on finding and evaluating information http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/ For Summarising information http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/busdev/hq1001nc/ecdl/summarizing.htm Referencing http://www.staffs.ac.uk/personaltutoring/writingreferences.php Harvard system http://slb-ltsu.hull.ac.uk/awe/index.php?title=Harvard_system_of_referencing Avoiding plagiarism: Tutorial (also available via writing site) http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/Plagiarism/ This allows for a messy, private online notemaking space http://www.evernote.com/ Or try Cornell notes http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html Or visual notes http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html Have you thought about making notes on a Prezi website? http://prezi.com Here's one constructed by some recent graduates http://prezi.com/ssuuvqkdx9uz/uni/ A student's thoughts on active reading – from an evolving essay http://anessayevolves.blogspot.com/2007/02/active-reading.html And (with thanks to Alice Gray): If you want to develop speed reading skills try the following resources: a. Short Burst Learning (accessed August 2011): http://www.speedreadingcd.com/reading-test.htm to find your current reading speed b. Doyle, D. (2010) Glendale Community College: Self Pacing Methods http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/methods.html for five useful methods (accessed August 2011). If developing a technique http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/busdev/hq1001nc/ecdl/summarizing.htm |
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