Higher Reading Skills

Overview

It is during our professional lives that our reading skills are often tested the most. Here, the reading we do may contain material with which we are not familiar. In addition, our response when reading at work may require more than just reflection; we may have to react in a formal way by means of a letter, presentation, or even a report.

Key Outcomes

This course starts off by helping delegates analyse their existing higher-level reading and research skills.

By understanding these complex skills, and by exploring new ones, they are shown how to best decipher the detailed and often subtle messages in many professional and business documents.

They will also be encouraged to develop a personal approach to research and the subsequent recording and collating of information.

Duration

1 day

Content

• Overview of how we learned to read when younger
• The importance of key mental actions to ‘real literacy’
• Understanding the difference between inference and deduction
• Creating your ideal reading conditions
• Review of advanced previewing and skimming techniques
• The four principles for improved reading
• How to be effective at note taking
• Developing effective research skills
• Identifying key sources when researching
• How to summarise information
• Creating your own knowledge file
• Applying the SQR3 principle