Reading Purpose and Strategies

1. Reading Purpose and Strategies Efficient reading is , to a great extent, an active process . A good reader usually automatically shifts from one strategy they used to another when reading texts of different types . By contrast , a poor reader , when reading any text , Is likely to start at the beginning and to proceed with the process word by word , stopping frequently to look up every unknown vocabulary item , until he reaches the end of the text . In fact, such kind of passive reading is worse than useless and sometimes will discourage the reader to finish the reading material to the end. Different reading strategies are needed for different subject disciplines, and even for different kinds of writing within the subject. Subjects in the humanities and social science often require fairly rapid reading of large amounts of information. Science subjects tend to require slower and closer reading of smaller amount of text. Anyway, you need to change between different reading strategies. And the reading strategy is usually determined by the reading purpose.

2. skimming , i.e., reading for a general impression scanning ,i.e., reading for specific details reading for main points in general Reading for selected main points intensive reading Reading for pleasure Practice