Decide how you will budget your time, if you plan to go beyond Survey Reading. A realistic time estimate, in accordance with your purpose and the material's difficulty, will help you set up an effective schedule and give you greater control over your reading. Questions can be specific and fact-finding or broad and searching. Questions aid concentration by stimulating curiosity. The satisfaction of finding answers strengthens retention.
Questions make a passive reader into an active one.
Through questioning, you can establish a dialogue with the author, a conversation which will increase your enjoyment. Questions will occur during and after reading, but start them early, during Survey Reading. Inc. May 1974. This information has been copied, with permission and some revisions, from the Virginia Tech server to ours, to allow faster access from our Web site. We encourage you to explore the original site via the links at top and bottom of this page.