Report on Effective Reading and Note-Taking Techniques for Students

This report discusses effective reading and note-taking techniques essential for academic success. It covers various reading methods such as scanning, detailed reading, skimming, speed reading, active reading, Structure-Proposition-Evaluation, and Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review. The report also identifies effective note-taking techniques, including the listing method, outline method, concept map method, and Cornell method, highlighting their benefits and drawbacks. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of these academic skills in helping students learn new information, improve their academic performance, and present data in an organized manner for easy recall and drawing conclusive statements. Desklib provides access to this report and many other resources to support students' learning needs.

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Abstract:
The report will cover four types of effective reading techniques as well as will also
explain about four note making techniques. In addition to this, the report will also provide a
conclusive statement as the end.

Table of Contents
Abstract:...........................................................................................................................................2
Introduction:.....................................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Various reading technique for students to become an efficient reader is discussed below:-. 4
Identification of effective note taking techniques:.................................................................5
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................7

Introduction:
The term academic writing is refereed as the effective writing practise that supports the
students in communicating their ideas, opinions as well as research projects to the professors or
academic community. This assists the students in writing in most formal style without copying
from other sources. Moreover, this report will cover about the effective reading techniques that
will help students in becoming effective readers. The report will also discuss about the important
note taking techniques in becoming efficient note takers(Hindman and et.al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
Various reading technique for students to become an efficient reader is discussed below:-
The reading is the method which allows student in transforming written text into
meaningful language by taking support of comprehensive knowledge. The effective reading
techniques also enable readers to effectively interact with message and find necessary conclusion
on the basis of reading. The following are the strategies that can assist students in becoming
efficient readers:
Scanning:- It is the reading technique which is used by the students for getting the
specific data just by looking properly at the whole files and documents. This strategy support the
students in gaining the critical information by focusing on the summary of chapter. In addition to
this, the student can also overview beginning as well as ending chapters in order to get general
idea about contents of chapter. For an example it can used to gather the names from the
telephone book.
Detailed reading:- This technique is majorly used by the students for collecting the
accurate information from the whole text of documents and books. In this, the reader lay its focus
on every word of the sentence in order to fully gain the understanding of whole text. Moreover,
this strategy enable the students in learning unfamiliar words properly by finding their meaning
through the use of dictionary(Binauhan and Salazar, 2019).
Skimming:- This reading technique is used for gathering the real or main points of the
whole text given in the book. In addition to this, the strategy assist the students in getting the
essence of written passage by just laying focus on main points or headings. It is usually used by
the students at the time of reading a survey report or newspapers.

Speed Reading:- It is defined as a reading technique in which a person has to increase
their reading speeds without losing the main understanding of the whole text. Some of the ways
that is used by the students to implement this technique are:-
 Identify the words without focusing much on each letter of the word.
 By not sounding out all the words to increase the efficiency of reading.
 By not reading the small sections and focuses on reading the pivot points.
Active reading Style :- In this technique, the reader fully involved in reading the text
carefully that helps the students to gain a thorough knowledge about the topic. This reading style
supports the student in gaining detailed knowledge about whole text by laying focus on the each
and every sentence of the chapter. In addition to it, this strategy helps student in becoming
efficient readers by developing comprehensive skills and knowledge due to reading in active
mode(Mirzayeva, 2020).
Structure-Proposition-Evaluation: This type of reading style is an interesting technique
as this method of reading mainly includes the structured analyses of text from books and journal.
This enable the students in understanding structure of work as well as also allow readers in
gaining complete detail of arguments in the chapter. Moreover, by following this technique the
students are able to conclude the main findings from the chapter.
Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review: The most important technique that can support
readers in becoming effective readers is survey,question,read,recite and review. The method
enable the students to effectively teach others after gaining the complete as well as in-depth
knowledge about whole chapter. By following the below mentioned processes the students can
become the effective readers:
Survey: This process helps student in getting main idea of whole chapter by laying importance
on reading introduction as well as summary of the chapter(Dildora and Miravaz,2020).
Question: This involves forming questions in order to better understand about the whole text.
This process also assist students to get an insight about the whole chapter by forming questions
as well as looking for their answers. It enable the students to get more detailed understanding
about the whole information from the chapter.
Read: This allow the readers in laying its focus only on reading selective piece of information in
order to extract necessary data from the whole text.

Recite: By adopting this process, the reader first read the information from whole text and after
this the reader recite the information by using his own language but includes the technical
keywords. This allow readers in gaining deeper understanding about the subject.
Review: this is the final process in which the reader takes a recap of what he has learned while
adopting effective readings techniques. In addition to this, it also provides an opportunity for the
readers by rectify mistakes related to their wrong interpretation of information.
Identification of effective note taking techniques:
The effective note taking techniques assist the students to learn new skills as well as
retain new knowledge effectively and deficiently. The following are the note making strategies:
Listing method:
This technique of note-making covers listing the piece of information in the sequential as
well as presentable manner. The listing can be done in the form of short phrases as well as the
information can also be presented with a complete paragraphs in order to understand idea in
more detail. However, this style of note-taking is not effective as this require a lot more writing
which can negatively impact understanding power of students. In relation to this, the students are
unable to focus on their ideas while doing note taking from this method. This technique is also
not effective as it allow students to write as much as possible without drawing any conclusions
as well as understanding information from the written text(Peverly and Wolf, 2019).
Outline method:
This technique of note-taking focuses on presenting an important piece of information in
the Roman numerical format. This allow students to outline the main idea in the form of making
headlines by using capital as well as bold letters. In relation to it, this technique assists students
to prioritise on their work materials more effectively. This type of technique support the students
to organise the information in the more detailed format which can lead to generate an idea in the
clear as well as precise manner by taking use of Arabic numbering method, Bold and capital
letter and many other fonts.
Concept map method:
In this technique, the student represents fundamental ideas of whole information in the
centre of page and after that systematically explains the information by using proper arrows as
well as lines. This graphical manner of note taking technique is the great way in order to make

relationship between various ideas. This support the students to identify and compare various
ideas for finding best piece of knowledge as well as conclusive statements. Furthermore, it also
help students in growing their visual consciousness which leads to the better grasping of complex
as well as logical structure of data. This note taking technique also assists students in gaining
abstract level ideas and relationships between the numerous ideas. It also support students to
summarise the main finding of written material in their own sentences which directly leads to the
enhanced capability to retain information in the fastest manner(Nurmila, 2020).
Cornell method:
In this method, the student divide pages into two columns for filling new information or
idea in the most effective manner. The left section of page contains a recall section as well as
right section is used for writing down data that are collected from any of the above methods of
note-taking. This type of method helps the students to recall main information in fast manner.
Conclusion:
It has been concluded from above report that academic skills are crucial in supporting
students to practise effective style of learning new information. It was evaluated that after
adopting the effective reading techniques the student can become efficient readers and can
improve their academic career to the great extent. In addition to this, it has been also analysed
that effective note-taking strategy is highly beneficial for the students in order to present piece of
data into proper format so that the information can be easily recalled as well as can also help in
drawing conclusive statements.

References:
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Dildora, J. and Miravaz, M.,2020 Common Techniques in Teaching of Reading. International
Journal on Integrated Education, 3(1), pp.65-68.
Hindman and et.al., 2020. Bringing the science of reading to preservice elementary teachers:
Tools that bridge research and practice. Reading Research Quarterly, 55, pp.S197-S206.
Mirzayeva, К.A., 2020. THE EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES TO DEVELOP READING
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Nurmila, N., 2020. Improving the Students' Reading Skill Trough Note-Taking Technique: a
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Peverly, S.T. and Wolf, A.D., 2019. Note-taking.