Report: Strategies to Enhance Reading and Writing Skills for Students

This report explores strategies to improve reading and writing abilities. It begins with an introduction to the importance of these skills, followed by an analysis of seven reading techniques including scanning, skimming, effective reading styles, speed reading, comprehensive reading, and proposition evaluation. The report then provides suggestions for improving the quality of written assignments, emphasizing the usage of correct material, recognizing the purpose of the assignment, practicing analytical thinking, following the correct structure, and using appropriate language. The conclusion summarizes the discussed techniques and their benefits, highlighting how students can enhance their confidence and focus through improved reading and writing skills. The report is based on research and references supporting the discussed techniques.

READING &WRITTEN
TECHNIQUES

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT-...................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Strategies to Improve Reading Abilities..........................................................................................3
Suggestions that will help students improve the quality of their written assignments. -................5
Usage of correct material..........................................................................................................5
Practice Analytical thinking.....................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

ABSTRACT-
In this report will discuss about the reading techniques which student can adopt to improve their
reading ability. This technique helps to increase the determination through their long term goals.
It report also includes the techniques to increase the writing ability.
INTRODUCTION
Reading is an mechanism for interaction that allows a person to change the writing into meaning.
It enables the person who reads to modify a written text into a significant language with proper
understanding, and smoothness, and to cooperate with the particular information. For Reading
effectively students need to adopt some techniques that will help to improve their reading,
listening and writing abilities. (Fisher, 2016)This report provides description of all the techniques
or methodologies student can use to improve their skills. Reading is a great tradition that can
change any individual’s life significantly. It can entertain people, excite and improve knowledge
and experiences described. In this report we will identify the different techniques of reading and
what are the different suggestions students can take to improve their written assignment
MAIN BODY
Strategies to Improve Reading Abilities.
There are 7 main strategies that can be used to improve their reading abilities which will help to
become comprehensive reader and will increase the quality and capacity of outcome that person
will get from after reading.
These strategies are discussed below:
Scanning- Scanning is a reading methodology through which it can be utilized when a
person only running his eyes over a text or statement frequently to understand and he is looking
for, or to find out something that ‘pops’ out at him. This is a usually used reading method for
daily or general reading assignments. Scanning help to understand the brief about the topic or

story so we can easily understand who should be written in the particular story or message.
Scanning with the help of text is a comprehension strategy that is used for collecting various
precise points without checking at the entire text. To highlight the main topics from the book ,
people can skim the part through the brief from starting to ending of chapters of that book or
notes. Scanning is importantly used in reading list of emails and articles and food menus.
(Walny,and et.al., 2017.)
Skimming- skimming is a reading technique used when a person is already aware about the
topic and helps to create glance over the material or story or book to acknowledge what the other
person is looking for. This technique mostly used when a person previously has knowledge of
the text. People can easily skim the material before moving to further reading. Skimming is
mostly use for product or service review, going over a speech last minute and for quick research.
Skimming can save a lot of time by making aware of the key points without entirely
comprehending the entire text.
Effective reading styles: Effective reading wants to get detailed understanding of the message
with the help of this method, the person is actively occupied with the text while reading it.
(Muijselaar, and et. al 2017.)This reading technique should be adopted when a person is reading
complicated message or something which he needs to consider critically about. To read
effectively, he needs to ask relevant questions to himself about the text, and indicate himself on
these questions. And trying to associate with what he is reading about his previous experience
and knowledge, and get notes if it is helpful.
Speed reading: To read speedily it is a mixture of a variety reading techniques. The objective of
reading is essentially to boost the reading speed of the person without compromising the
knowledge of the book or text. It also Identify the words without concentrating on each
information. It is not include to create sounds on all messages or not articulate some expressions
but without wasting time on some phrases than others and Skim the text into in tiny categories. It
also boosts your energy and improves the vocabulary and confidence.

Comprehensive reading: Detailed or comprehensive reading is mainly slow reading technique.
With the help of this method reader can carefully read, absorb, and examine each and every word
significance. To understand the meanings of words in a paragraph to provide deeper
understanding can be time effective and persistence, but in some situation, this is the best
technique for exercise (Gilakjani, and Sabouri, 2016.)
Proposition evaluation: This reading strategy is mainly favorable for non-fiction writing. To use
this technique first need to recognize the pattern of content and create a systematic outline either
in the mind of the person or on balnk paper. After the layout, person have to find all of the valid
recommendations that go with into each section of the format and person have to evaluate the
opinion and propositions and make their own conclusion about the text.
Suggestions that will help students to improve quality of written assignments.
Written assignment can be hard for the students who don't have much habit of writing. But
assignments are very important for student’s life. They need to write effective assignment to gain
more numbers from their teachers. Writing provides voice to our internal thoughts and enables us
to share them with others. It is a form of communication; writing can beat time and is a route to
pass stories from generation to generation. (Durga, and Rao, 2018) To improve anyone’s
reading is to have them write. Writing concentrates on students on choices, comprehension,
technicians, improving their perspective about every situation and expressing their perspective to
others. There are some suggestions students can adopt to improve their writing skills.
Usage of correct material
When students get their writing assignment, they have to make sure about the usage of
information and news in their assignments that should be completely valid. They need to Cross
check all the information from different source by utilizing them in their paper. While
completing a research they have to ignore the 3rd party blogs and rather they should get the data
from realistic sources and authorized websites. They can also use their library to get
information. Students have to make sure that they are using relevant data for the assignment. If

student uses wrong data it will reflect the wrong image in front of their teachers. To prepare a
correct and effective assignment it requires a lot of research and patience.
Recognize the purpose:
To write down an extraordinary project on paper, students have to first identify the
question properly or about the topic and need to convince that they are having a detailed
knowledge of given subject or the assignment is. The basic of the subject they chosen that should
be included in the assignment. Without understanding of what other person has asked, student
will not able to provide proper details. Though students have to focus more on research carefully,
they will not be proficient to write a proper assignment without a good basic knowledge of the
topic. And also, students should be aware about the purpose of giving the assignment. They have
clear idea about what are learning’s from the assignment
Practice Analytical thinking
logical thinking is very essential when it comes to assignment. Students need to confirm that the
assignment they will write be correct and not weak. They need to analyze the topic with all the
description and start writing the assignment as per the given structure. They need to follow the
proper given structure. It should be presentable. Assignment which will presents a logical
argument will earn more marks than one that presents the same details in a random or jumbled
way. They should try to create an outline for their structure before begin with writing. Each and
every paragraph should follow logics with proper research before it, and all the given points
should gather to support to the particular argument.(Graham, and et al 2019.)
Follow the correct structure
Each and every assignment has its own structure and procedure to follow. And they should b be
aware of proper structure of assignment and whatsoever be the type of assignment they will
assign to student; they need to follow the standard format with logical points. Written
assignments can be various types similar to essay, dissertation and hypothesis, and each and

every assignment has a different construction. So, they have to put correct question to their
teachers to provide them detailed procedure and formats.
Use appropriate language
To improve the value of your written assignment, they must have fine command on sentence
structure. The quality of writing enhances with the use of accurate tense and the suitable words.
They need to judge carefully before creating a choice of expressions that they would like to write
in the assignment, moreover use the accurate pitch of writing. A written task has becomes
exceptional only when they use correct tones and language. They can get the help of their skilled
college writers after completion of the assignment.

CONCLUSION
Above report helps to understand how student use the different techniques to improvise their
reading and writing skills to enhance the efficiency in writing as well as reading which increase
their confidence. With the help of these techniques, they become more focused about the work
which will assigned to them. These reports build qualities like they increase their knowledge
with more research about the topic. This report also makes understand what are the suggestions
student can take to enhance their writing skills like follow proper structure, with proper
grammar, on time work, focus on basics and lastly on proper understand the question will able to
provide descriptive details for the topics. (Graham, and et al 2019.)

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Fisher, A.S.H., 2016. Students’ reading techniques difficulties in recount text. Journal of English
and Education, 4(2), pp.1-12.
Walny,J and et.al., 2017. Active reading of visualizations. IEEE transactions on visualization
and computer graphics, 24(1), pp.770-780.
Muijselaar, M.M., and et. al 2017. Developmental relations between reading comprehension and
reading strategies. Scientific Studies of Reading, 21(3), pp.194-209.
Gilakjani, A.P. and Sabouri, N.B., 2016. A study of factors affecting EFL learners’ reading
comprehension skill and the strategies for improvement. International Journal of English
Linguistics, 6(5), pp.180-187.
Mónos, K., 2016. A study of the English reading strategies of Hungarian university students with
implications for reading instruction in an academic context. Malaysian Journal of ELT
Research, 1(1), p.23.
Durga, V.S.S. and Rao, C.S., 2018. Developing students’ writing skills in English: A process
approach. Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language
Teaching, 2(6), p.108.
Graham, S. and et al 2019. Writing skills, knowledge, motivation, and strategic behaviour predict
students’ persuasive writing performance in the context of robust writing instruction. The
Elementary School Journal, 119(3), pp.487-510.

Online
6 Techniques for Building Reading Skills—in Any Subject.2016 [ONLINE] available
through <https://www.edutopia.org/article/6-techniques-building-reading-skills-
susan-barber>
2. 4 Ways to Help Student Writers Improve [ONLINE] available
through<https://www.edutopia.org/article/4-ways-help-student-writers-improve >