College test english 2 pps

LearningExpress Skill Builders • CHAPTER 3 49

C • H • A • P • T • E • R

SUMMARY

Does this sound familiar to you? You’ve just read two whole

pages of text and you can’t remember a thing you’ve read.

You read it again, this time determined to get it right. You

stop midway; you start yet again. You give up and put the

book away for later. Just like writer’s block stops you from

writing, drifting away while reading can be terribly frus￾trating, and it can derail an otherwise determined acade￾mic career. So why is it so difficult to read effectively? Is there

anything you can do about it?

et’s start by defining effective reading. For most academic read￾ing, whether it is a textbook (non-fiction), a novel or short story

(fiction), or a piece of poetry, effective reading should mean that

you can paraphrase, or put in your own words, what you have

just read. You should also be able to:

■ identify the main idea

■ identify facts or details which support the main idea

■ draw inferences

■ interpret visual information

■ identify vocabulary

■ distinguish fact from opinion

■ recognize an organizational pattern

READING

COMPREHENSION 3

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