Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer skittering problems

in skittering, we need to pick up the topic sentence of the paragraph.

In the 4th edition of "photoreading whole mind system", there's a line like this which i dun really agree "• Read the first sentence (also known as the topic sentence) of
the paragraph you are going to skitter."

Sometime the topic sentence is not necessary the first sentence. If it is so, then ppl may consider reading the last sentence. But what if i read both the sentence and yet cannot get what the paragraph means?

Please help me to skitter

Hi Seng,

If you are reading both the first and last sentence of the paragraph and you are bouncing over the words of the paragraph and you still do not get the meaning of the paragraph do skittering on 2 paragraphs instead of 1 paragraph.

Photoread4me

In skittering you read the first sentence. Then skitter the rest of the paragraph Do that for each paragraph. Skitter the rest of the paragraph looking for phrases and words that ass meaning to the first sentence. If the paragraph didn't make sense to you you read the last sentence of the paragraph. This is why skittering is much slower than superreading.

If the paragraph is correctly structures then the first sentence introduces the topic of that paragraph.

Skittering is best suited to academic text or authors who manage to write half or whole page paragraphs.

AlexK