One-minute review: Be sure to read the preface and/or the introduction to the text. The preface is usually a succinct and brief review of how the text was written and organized. The introduction usually reviews some of the major ideas in the text.
Survey each chapter before reading it: title, sub-titles, bold-face headings, first paragraph, first sentence of each intermediate paragraph and the final, summarizing paragraph. Study diagrams, pictures and their captions.
Now that you have surveyed the chapter, what do you want to know when you are reading the chapter? Those questions are your purposes for reading. After you have answered your questions, try the textbook’s questions at the end of the chapter.
Title: How to Study in College. Third Edition. Walter Pauk. Boston
Comment: I wish someone had told me about surveying a chapter when I was in school. Like a fool, I tried to read everything as if it were to be memorized. There are times to do that of course, but many times, the survey would have been enough. RayS.
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