Becoming an Effective Reader
Channel: The CAC at Uvic
Date: 2018-03-21

Does reading for your courses and research take much of your time? This video offers practical tips to help you read academic texts faster and understand them better. You will learn the three main stages of the reading process and techniques such as pre-reading, skimming, and scanning texts to improve your comprehension of the argument and remember what you’ve read. By adapting some of these strategies, you will be able to become a more effective and efficient reader.

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Music from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Images from kjpargeter/Freepik, DMacks/WikiMedia Commons and 1Greenjack1/WikiMedia Commons