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Paper reading
Paper reading
- Use coloured paper or plastic tabs to mark your readings. The beauty of these is that you can move them around later when you're reading for another purpose and looking for different information. So you don't have permanent marks on your books.
- If you're reading for a particular definition or key concept then consult the Index first rather than searching randomly.
- When searching for the word or phrase you want, trace your finger down the centre of the page and scan your eyes across the text.
- Some students may find using coloured acetate sheets over the text, yellow or pink, purple, or light blue, can be useful if they have a particular diagnosed eye condition.
- Use Post-It notes to:
- take notes from the reading for a particular essay, talk or assessment, then position these into your structure or rough outline for your writing or talk.
- mark evidence for and examples with different colours and different positioning and so on.
- shift your ideas easily if you want to restructure the early draft version.
- When you're notetaking from your reading, be sure to use linkers and connector words to summarise the ideas. For example, 'this chapter outlines three types of chocolate making techniques...'.
- You can try a Quicktionary pen
if you need to grab slabs of texts from a book or paper copy. This device stores the information digitally and you can have it read out or export it to other electronic devices.
— Simon
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