Comments on: Monday Master Class: The Art of Pseudo-Skimming http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/02/25/monday-master-class-the-art-of-pseudo-skimming/ Decoding Patterns of Success Mon, 21 May 2012 04:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Why Students No Read Good « GeNYU http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/02/25/monday-master-class-the-art-of-pseudo-skimming/#comment-25993 Why Students No Read Good « GeNYU Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:05:48 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=284#comment-25993 [...] his blog, Newport advocates “The Art of Pseudo-Skimming,” a strategy on how to pick out only the most relevant sections of assigned readings. Following [...]

[...] his blog, Newport advocates “The Art of Pseudo-Skimming,” a strategy on how to pick out only the most relevant sections of assigned readings. Following [...]

]]> By: Tina http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/02/25/monday-master-class-the-art-of-pseudo-skimming/#comment-25094 Tina Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:50:31 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=284#comment-25094 Hey! This is a great strategy that I use almost all of the time. Especially for high school textbooks. Another thing that might be useful is to just read the first and last (couple of) sentence of the paragraph. Most of the time you get the main ideas presented in the paragraph that way while being able to skip the examples/filler etc. As well sometimes a paragraph may start off with an anecdote or something but progress to important information, so skimming the last few sentences is also good to prevent missing out on these! By the way, I'm really enjoying your blog! It's great! I'm looking forward to trying them out for undergrad next year :) Hey! This is a great strategy that I use almost all of the time. Especially for high school textbooks. Another thing that might be useful is to just read the first and last (couple of) sentence of the paragraph. Most of the time you get the main ideas presented in the paragraph that way while being able to skip the examples/filler etc. As well sometimes a paragraph may start off with an anecdote or something but progress to important information, so skimming the last few sentences is also good to prevent missing out on these!

By the way, I’m really enjoying your blog! It’s great! I’m looking forward to trying them out for undergrad next year :)

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]]> By: Scott H Young » Friday Links 08-03-05 http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/02/25/monday-master-class-the-art-of-pseudo-skimming/#comment-4338 Scott H Young » Friday Links 08-03-05 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:01:34 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=284#comment-4338 [...] The Art of Pseudo-Skimming - Cal writes about how to pseudo-skim. The idea is similar to my interpretation of speed reading–that you need to control your speed based on the content. [...]

[...] The Art of Pseudo-Skimming – Cal writes about how to pseudo-skim. The idea is similar to my interpretation of speed reading–that you need to control your speed based on the content. [...]

]]> By: Ilham http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/02/25/monday-master-class-the-art-of-pseudo-skimming/#comment-4057 Ilham Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:58:02 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=284#comment-4057 This is an interesting entry Cal, and surprisingly very close to the way I take notes from readings or textbooks. The only exception is that I usually read about 1/3 of the paragraph before noticing it was a filler. I will try in the next coming weeks to implement this system and see how it goes. By the way, there is a note-taking session (for Bio students) happening this week at my school that is being hosted by a humanities student. I was wondering if you ever attended something like this, and if it was effective or if you ever obtained any new skills. This is an interesting entry Cal, and surprisingly very close to the way I take notes from readings or textbooks. The only exception is that I usually read about 1/3 of the paragraph before noticing it was a filler.

I will try in the next coming weeks to implement this system and see how it goes.

By the way, there is a note-taking session (for Bio students) happening this week at my school that is being hosted by a humanities student. I was wondering if you ever attended something like this, and if it was effective or if you ever obtained any new skills.

]]> By: Michael F http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/02/25/monday-master-class-the-art-of-pseudo-skimming/#comment-4055 Michael F Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:51:04 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=284#comment-4055 I've made it a bad habit to pseudo-skim all readings. Even wonderful fiction books that I am only reading for pleasure. I just started my own academic blog, and I put <em>How to Win at College</em> as the book of the month. Then I just so happened across your blog. The book should arrive sometime this week, and I look forward to reading it. I’ve made it a bad habit to pseudo-skim all readings. Even wonderful fiction books that I am only reading for pleasure.

I just started my own academic blog, and I put How to Win at College as the book of the month. Then I just so happened across your blog. The book should arrive sometime this week, and I look forward to reading it.

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