Learning to Identify and Develop Reading skills for Dissertation Writing
To be able to do dissertation writing effectively and quickly, it is essential to learn how to identify and develop various reading skills. Learning to apply the right reading skill to a particular work to be able to make an efficient use of the resource material is an arduous task. It must therefore be a foremost task of any research scholar or dissertation writer to become acquainted with it.
Of the various reading skills namely skimming, scanning, Intensive and extensive reading; each reading strategy is applied exclusively or in combination to various texts. Before learning to apply the right reading strategy for dissertation writing, it is recommended to first identify different ways of reading as applied to documents of daily use. Doing this helps understand the peculiarities of each reading strategy and apply it in larger context.
Here are a few questions you must ask yourself to identify the right reading strategy to apply to a particular information resource.
- Write the reading strategy you would apply when reading a newspaper, a magazine, an email, a novel or a research paper. Choose from the most common reading strategy that is applied namely, skimming, scanning, Intensive and extensive reading. Your answer can be a single reading approach or a combination of them.
- Check how your choice of a particular reading strategy best corresponds to the reading resource. For example if you are reading a news paper for piece of news that you saw on TV, what kind of reading strategy would yield results in the fastest and the most effective manner.
- Similarly when reading a novel or a fashion magazine, do you indulge in careful reading trying to get the connotative and the denotative meaning of the written word?
- How much time you devote reading each information resource? Do you spend an equal amount of time reading a newspaper as you do reading a research paper or an academic assignment?
- What kind of reading strategy you apply when reading for purpose in contrast to reading for pleasure? How your choice of a particular reading strategy does alter your understanding of a given text?
Asking the above questions help identify the peculiarities of each reading skill and makes the writer aware of the best reading strategy that suits a particular work. Students often insist on taking up intensive reading to everything they read. This exercise eats way a lot of precious time as most of the information in the given document may be of no use for the given dissertation assignment.
The choice of a particular reading strategy may differ widely in accordance to the dissertation writer’s interest and purpose. However, using these approaches ensure time productivity and management, which are the essential elements of dissertation writing.
