I. 1. Have you ever considered how different reading can be? a) Read the following text

Reading is the most important single skill in study: in the Human­ities гуманитарных науках perhaps 90 per cent of private персонального study time is taken up занято in read­ing. It is known that there are big differences between individuals in their rates of reading and comprehension. Clearly if you can speed up увеличить your rate of reading you will save much time. Books and articles, of course, differ in difficulty and in clarity of presentation ясности изложения. Rate of

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reading depends on the difficulty of the material and on the purpose of reading.

We can distinguish:

(1) Reading to master основной information, usually necessarily обязательно careful, slow and repeated;

(2) Exploratory исследовательское reading, as in skimming through беглый просмотр a book in order to get a general view of it;

(3) Revision reading, as in reading rapidly through a book with which you are already familiar, in order to confirm knowledge;

(4) Reading in order to search for specific information or to answer a specific question;

(5) Critical reading, as in reading a book for review рецензии;

(6) Reading for enjoyment, as a novel;

(7) Proof-reading читка корректуры, when meticulous тщательное attention is paid to spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.

A good reader will vary his rate of reading according to his pur­pose. A novel may be read very quickly, perhaps at 750 words per minute or more, if the reader has no intent намерение to remember, but merely wants to know the fate of the hero or heroine . A single paragraph or diagram диаграмма, схема, график in a textbook, on the other hand, may have to be read through very slowly four or five times before it is fully compre­hended.

(From: Maddox H. How to Study. L, 1967.)

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