Well Formed Outcomes

• What is your purpose ?• What’s stopped you (slowed you down)

before ?• What do you get out of what you do

now ?• How can you improve ? • How will you know when you’ve

achieved your purpose ?

• Reading purposes

Purpose

• Select potential sources

• Identify key themes

• Master ideas – primary sources

• Gather supporting evidence – secondary sources

• Interest

Reading StrategiesSelecting sources / Identifying

themes

• Covers blurb• Contents • Preface / foreword / abstract• Author information

• Chapter introductions / conclusions• Figures / diagrams / statistics

Reading StrategiesMastering primary ideas

• Reading carefully• Reading in detail• Note-making• Active (questioning) involvement

- What are the main points ?- Is it convincing ? (why / why not ?)- What are the implications ?

Reading StrategiesMastering primary ideas

• Process:- What’s my purpose ?- Skim read first for context- Detailed reading with questioning mind- Make notes regularly

- Summarise notes- Try summarising without reference to notes

• Internet essay

Reading StrategiesGathering supportive evidence

Where are the key points ?• Introduction• Conclusion• The topic sentence of each

paragraph (often the first) • Summarise• Reference

Reading barriers

• Mouthing words

• Reading word by word

• Going backwards

• Losing your place

• Struggling because you ‘have to’

• Stopping to check unfamiliar terms

Solution

• Keep going !

Reading strategies Enjoyable engagement

• Find the best time

• Allocate short, regular times

• Engage with the subject

• Listen to music ?

• Focus without distraction

How do you feel about reading ?

Ways of making it more enjoyable …

… read what you like

… share with a friend

… set limits, engage actively, stop

Note-making Purposes 1: Summarising

Note-making Purposes 2: Synthesising

Note-making Purposes 3: Critically analysing

i thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of life and love and wings; and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)