Introduction
When was the last time you read a book, or a substantial magazine article? Do your daily reading habits center around tweets, Facebook updates, or the directions on your instant oatmeal packet? If you’re one of countless people who don’t make a habit of reading regularly, you might be missing out: reading has a significant number of benefits.
Task
It's easy to fill your time with Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook, checking email and glancing at news headlines. But sooner or later you yearn for the pleasure of a good book. The Internet wants us to click every other minute from site to site. This habit can stand in the way of an older kind of reading, one that offers real pleasure and understanding: settling down with a book and getting to know it as well as you can.
Anyone can be a good reader, even in the Internet Age. Reading better means reading more slowly. The Net tells us to consume words in small, easy bites, as we dart from one webpage to another. But slow reading demands time and practice.
When you read, keep your sense of fun, but combine it with the ambition to experience books as deeply as you can. Make yourself ready for the serious delights that reading can offer: the unforgettable people and worlds that you can encounter nowhere else.
Here are some guidence that will help you with slow reading. If you enjoy books but feel that there must be more to see, and say, about what you've read, these rules are for you. They will enable you to become a more able and careful reader, to know what to do better when you open a book.
Process
1
Keep a reading journal. In your journal, write a summary of the chapter, a list of vocabulary words that elude or confuse you, and brief discussion about how the section made you feel/what you thought of/meaning, etc.
2
Choose your reading area.Read in a comfortable area, but not too comfortable. If you don't care much for reading, reading in bed, or on a comfy couch may not be a good idea. You don't want to fall asleep!.
3
Manage your reading time. Try to dedicate certain times for your reading. Also, try to stick to those times.
- Chose the timing for reading wisely. Reading right before bed may not be the best time for a non-reader. Try the morning, or during meals.
- Read in spurts, ten minutes here, twenty there. Don't spend all day with a book if you don't have the time.
4
Write and reflect on the book. Make notes in the margins, and ask yourself questions about what you've just read. The questions can be rhetorical, the idea is to turn the page into a grounds for thinking, books don't mind if you write on them.
- Use highlighters, page tabs, and favorite pens/bookmarks. Believe it or not, this makes reading more study than tedious work.
- Write a summary or take down quotations of passages with special meaning to you.
- Write a piece of your own inspired by or in the style of what you have read. Reading can be an excellent inspiration and guide towards writing.
5
Find people to discuss the book with. You can start a book club, discuss the book online and read others' discussions, or if it's for a class, a group you discuss the work with outside of class. You can include reviews, or critical analysis.
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Look at your own habits and tendencies in light of what you read. What have you learned? What would you change about yourself.
Evaluation
As a reader, you can evaluate a book DURING reading and AFTER reading.- You have to decide if the author was able to make the story come to life. Decide if the story was informative, entertaining or useful. Think about how well you understood the book. Decide if you enjoyed it or not.
- Evaluation is when a reader decides what they like or do not like about what they have read. It's the reader’s chance to assess the book. It requires the reader to ask questions during and after reading. it allows you to express your opinion about the book you read.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I recommend that you enjoy reading more often. There are excellent reasons for doing it; you just have to want to expand your knowledge and your culture, to improve your imagination and also your vocabulary. I know that we should evolve with the technology; that is, it is good to know how to navigate in the internet, but we must also not forget the books. Try to choose good books at the beginning, and then I ensure you that you never will stop reading.