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Unit 6: Reading Skills- To Enhance Independent Reading
Reflect notes
Recent work in cognitive psychology indicates that comprehension and retention are increased
when you ‘elaborate’ new information. This is to reflect on it, to turn it this way and that, to
compare and make categories, to relate one part with another, to connect it with your other
knowledge and personal experience, and in general to organize and reorganize it. This may be
done in your mind’s eye, and sometimes on paper. Sometimes you will at this point elaborate the
outline of step 6, and perhaps reorganize it into a standard outline, a hierarchy, a table, a flow
diagram, a map, or even a ‘doodle’. Then you go through the same process, steps 3 to 7, with the
next section, and so on.
review
Survey your ‘reduced’ notes of the paper or chapter to see them as a whole. This may suggest
some kind of overall organization that pulls it all together. Then recite, using the questions or
other cues as starters or stimuli for recall. This latter kind of recitation can be carried out in a few
minutes, and should be done every week or two with important material.
self assessment
Multiple Choice Questions:
11. In PSQ5R Model of reading, P stands for .....................
(a) Projection
(b) Purpose
(c) Productivity
(d) Perfect
12. Which of these is not one of the 5Rs of the PSQ5R Model?
(a) Recite
(b) Reflect
(c) Review
(d) Reproduce
6.6 executive reading
The executives in an organization have to read a variety of things, ranging from letters, applications,
proposals, reports, annual budgets, reference books, bills, vouchers, financial statements, project
reports and so on. They spend a major time on these activities. So to be efficient in their work,
they would need to devise a strategy which will allow them to spend appropriate time on each of
these reading materials, depending upon the priority assigned to them.
An approximate framework for executives is given below, though the actual strategy may differ
as per the situation and importance of the material.
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