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How not to get lost in the jungle of information overflow

Improved reading

International Competition Law, MIM 2010 Nadine S.

Why new reading methods

• Most people learn to read in the age of six, and keep this reading methods

• But it its worth to build up proper strategies to work with texts to shorten the time you need to read and understand

• This is especially useful for your studies and office work, where it is important to gather information

1. How to not lose the concentration

• Problem: Thinking on something else while reading a text, starting day dreaming

• This is caused by a too slow pace of reading

• Solution: Read faster and set aims• Fix a certain aim e.g. number of pages or amount of detail

knowledge • Generally everybody is able to handle an input of 800 to

1000 words per minute, but most of us read only 200 to 300 words per minute: Start to use your unused capacity

2. How to avoid information overflow

• Problem: Loosing time by reading unimportant detail information

• Solution: First of all get a general overview of the text and its density of information

• Skip through the text page by page and take a few seconds to get a first impression of each page

• You will be surprised, how much you can understand by only reading: headlines, bold printed, enumerations, long and uncommon words

• After this general overview you can directly work on the parts which seem to be most important

3. How to pull yourself forwards

• Problem: Back skipping in the text during the reading process causes a lack of fastness and a lack of understanding

• Solution: Go ahead, look forwards in the text• Read a complete and coherent part as a closed unity (e.g. a

paragraph or a whole chapter)• Only after having understood the whole closed part, you can

read again the important details and mark them• Difficult parts you should read twice without a break• Trust in your comprehension skills and don’t try to get all the

information by reading a text the first time

4. How to not get stuck

• Problem: Getting stuck by reading word-by-word

• Solution: Identify coherent word groups• You can easily recognise 3 to 4 cm of text on a

page, what enables you to identify word groups• You can also guess which words are usually used

together in a context, so you don’t have to get stuck on understanding every single word

Healthy Eyes

• Place reading materials at least 30 cm from the eyes

• When you read, lighting should be sufficient, even and stable

• Micro-Breaks: If you spend a good part of your day using the computer, the 20-20-20 rule: the rule suggest that after every 20 minutes, the computer user should take a break for at least 20 seconds and look at objects that are 20 feet away

• Rest your eyes regularly:After reading for 30 to 40 minutes, take a break of 3 to 5 minutes or look at distant objects to relax your eyes