Hey superman,
I just read the Red Badge of Courage for school also. We had to read it and then write an essay on it. I'm still a beginning PReader, and the book was one of my first experiences. I'm pretty sure PRing accelerated the proccess a great deal!
Here's what I did:
I previewed the book (read the introduction, flipped through the pages, read a page here and there; I didn't really take any trigger words out)
Then I PR it.
Then I waited for the incubation period. After that, I just started super reading/ dipping the entire book. I went from start to finish fairly quickly. I stopped at certain points, read a page, then moved on. I did this passing of the entire book I think about 3 times. By then, I had a pretty good idea of the book.
After that, I made a mind map of the entire book, pertaining to the essay I had to write. I also went to sparknotes.com, and rapid read various things there.
After that, using my mind map, I wrote my essay very quickly, since I had all my main points down already.
I spent a total time of about 3 1/2 hrs. with the entire project, including the writing of the essay. I know this is a bit slow, but some of it is due to procrastination. Also, it's an improvement from before, and I'm still just learning the PR system.
Hope this helps!
--ambiguousendeavors--
