Reading and Note Making Skills for Students: Techniques and Methods

Reading and note
making skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Reading is a simple life yet fundamental life skill which involves multilayered concepts
of grammar and vocabulary recognition, word comprehension and language fluency in order to
make sense and derive meaning from a written set of texts and symbols. Reading is a deeply
personalized concept as human beings have their own diligence and thought process which
enables all of them to derive a slightly different meaning from a given text. Due to this, reading
efficiently to gain the best and most correct form of information is very important for readers and
especially for students (ABDINAZAROV, 2019). Note Taking is complementary to reading and
is widely classified as just the act of writing down everything that is interpreted from a written or
oral source but it is quite a complex process in reality as it consists of connecting, filtering and
condensing ideas into written text that makes the maximum amount of sense to the reader.
This report will highlight the skills of efficient reading and proper note taking with a
focus on different techniques of reading and multiple methods which enable people to make
notes according to their needs by taking into account the helpfulness of both these concepts for
students going through their academic study.
MAIN BODY
Reading is an essential life skill to inculcate in every person at a young age as it it helpful
in every daily routine in life and it is of extreme importance to students studying in schools and
universities. The use of journals, books and documents is routine in colleges and case studies are
employed in many subjects to give students a practical understanding of real life problems which
makes it paramount that all students are efficient readers. In order to read in a precise and
diligent manner to absorb as much holistic information as possible, there are many different
techniques and approaches to reading that students and professionals alike apply to get the best
possible results.
Scanning is academic context is an approach of reading which is concerned with finding
and gaining specific types of information from a given pool of text. It is always a case that in a
particular set of words, there is a lot of material that can be labelled as fluff and not useful or
related to the topic at hand (Ceran, Aydın and Onarıcıoğlu, 2018). Efficient readers do not need
to read the entire text when looking for specific sets of information and knowledge and they can
go directly to the content they are interested in while quickly scanning everything else for