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Originally posted by gymosphere:
Alex, I am not very sure about layering. how do you know what you want on each layer?

I know what I want from each layer because I am superreading and dipping for answers to the questions I formed. Thats why previewing for trigger words helps and then turning them into questions. I wrote a 4 page article on asking questions. Email me if you want a copy.

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will you leave something important when doing the layering?

No because you repeat looking over the text more than once with layering you are more likely to gather more information than with a regular once through reading. Looking over the text again with a new question in mind helps you to see the information afresh each time. This is one of the reasons why I think my overall comprehension of the text improved. (from 20% to 70%) I was zeroing in on information and superread and dipped paragraphs more than once and manged to pull out more information to improve my comprehension than I could manage in a once through reading

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from your posts, i don frequently see rapid read. is that not suitable for you or you prefer other methods? when super read and dip, is it necessary to go from fromt of the book to the end of the book or it is ok to skip into whatever page?

Rapid reading is reading the book/text right through from beginning to end. (similar to regular reading only you pace varies from your regular reading speed to superreading over sections). It is usually the last thing you do for a book and is often unnecessary.

You rapid read when you get the feeling that the book has more information that you want out of it but you are not sure what that information is.

You also rapid read when you discover the book has a lot of information that you want out of it and you want to spend more time with it. This usually occurs after one or 2 activation sessions.

You can also apply rapid reading on Novels for pleasure... books that you want to understand in a chapter by chapter manner.

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BTW, this thread is nice! y let it die?

Lets post whatever experiment you hav here

Thank you

Anyone is welcomed to post their experiments

Alex

[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited September 15, 2002).]