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Advanced Communication Skills

Notes 2. Is there any information that I learnt from it?
3. What’s interesting in it?
As you are reading you can also make a list of all difficult words, look for their meanings in the
dictionary and try to remember them. You can judge yourself by quizzing yourself on the main
points like the main idea or the characters of the story, the information that you learnt from it
etc. It is always better to jot down your thoughts which would actually help you in remembering
the facts or the main points.
Reading the questions first also helps in identifying the answers quickly. It also gives you an
idea as to what you should be focussing on while reading the text.
Inculcate Reading: Some students are naturally inclined towards reading. Students who’re not
much into reading need to be slowly nudged into it. Learning about your taste would help you
select books. Fairy tales, non-fiction, travelogues, fantasy, mystery, thrillers, or comics – it can
be anything!
Reading is an ongoing learning process. Over time, readers consciously or unconsciously move
from one level of reading to the next. Their thought-process and depth of understanding improve
with each good book they read. They also subconsciously begin picking up new words and use
them in everyday communication. It goes without saying that their confidence with the language
also increases.

8.2 Reading Comprehension and Personality Predicates

“Brevity is the soul of wit”

—William Shakespeare in ‘Hamlet’
Communication is linked to personality, and comprehension in reading is different for different
types of personalities Communication, therefore, is dependent on the ability to absorb learning
from reading. Capacity of individual memory is an independent variable, and is highly
personality specific. Symmetrically organizing the mosaic of thoughts while examining the
specific factors in the various methods of cognition leads to as clarity of understanding.
Reading comprehension skills vary with different personality types. It is a skill pivotal to any
kind of business activity, because policy decisions are based on what is comprehended from
reading letters and literatures. Today’s environment of cut-throat competition needs quick
comprehension and the ability to act thereon.

Those students who can rapidly comprehend and understand articles can digest ideas faster than
others. In order to become a good research fellow or research assistant in one of the 100 best
B-schools in the world, one has to read and comprehend a minimum of ten articles of international
repute steadily, to present before the professor before one can be rated as an ideal student.

If we carefully examine the subject area, we learn that comprehension is a two-fold process.
Incidentally, it requires the understanding of what is presented and reproduced, all of which is
comprehended from reading. Comprehension skill, therefore, plays a vital role in practical life
and it can be developed through diligent effort, like any other skill.

8.3 Reading Comprehension

Comprehension involves rapid reading, quick understanding and precise reproduction.
According to Edward Fry, it is observed that there are three reading speeds ‘study reading
speed’, ‘average reading speed’ and ‘skimming speed’.

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