Sunday, 30 March 2008

Speed reading

With so many things to read I have been reviving my interest in speed reading. I'm not sure it's working though, although a computer based test tells me my reading speed has gone from 450 to 660 words a minute.
James Shorthouse has elaborated on my list of topics that might come up, with a few suggestions about what would lend itself to being a good SAQ question.

PS: For the princely sum of £7.86 you too can improve your speed reading by buying a program from here. I bought it for a bit of work distraction, but you can plug your own text into the program to read (so you can learn while you practice!) though you do have to tweak it sometimes in Notepad or Wordpad first if you copy and paste from PDF files. And, okay, it has a bit of a...ahem...naff title (Speed Your Read), but hey...

1 comment:

Dr James Shorthouse said...

Hey there,
Nice to see someone else doing the same thing - cheers for the link and mention! Hope you're works going well - best of luck
James