Hi Photoread4me,

I would like some advice on this strategy regarding super-reading please:

I am reading a book called C# 2005. My purpose for this book is to be able to develop my programming and problem solving skills in C# to a professional level so that I can improve my career prospects. This means that It is very technical in nature so I am not skimming the book to get to the meat as I need to know most of the stuff.

The strategy that I have used:

I have created my pupose, as above, used the ideal state and impact statments and I have photoread the book a couple of times now. I left the book overnight before activation.

As for activation, I work on a chapter at a time. These are the steps
1. I first flip through the chapter to get the headings and start creating a mind map of the chapter name at the centre and each branch as a chapter sub topic.
2.I then mind probe the subsections and ask myself questions to build my curiosity.
3.I then superread the section, as I do so, I am getting no comprehension at all! By superreading I am scanning my eyes down the top to bottom in a zig zag motion.
4. After 1st pass of superreading, I then try and add to the branch for that section on my mindmap, but because of very little comprehension, I usually just pick up a key word.

I feel that super-reading for me is not helping me understand the material. Because is is technical in nature and because it is teaching programming concepts and principles with examples, the only way to learn this and understand it is to do traditional or rapid reading to get the comprehension I need.
What I am unsure of is if I am going about this too slowly because I have to go into traditional reading to get the comprehension? Most of the material in the section is pretty important to understand their programming examples so I take time to understand and absorb the logic.
Should I therefore forget the superreading stage? Or am I not doing the superreading stage correctly?

What do you think I should do?

much appreciated
dmlocke










Last edited by dmlocke; 03/12/07 01:17 PM.