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A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbook are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions. Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools.
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The basics:
Multiply the number of pages you have to read by 5 minutes. That is the amount of time the average college student needs to spend on their reading assignment. Keep this in mind as you schedule time to do your reading. If you calculate four hours of reading, you might not want to read 7-11 p.m. straight through. Consider getting an hour in before class in the morning or over the lunch break - spread it out a bit.
Divide the reading into 10-page chunks. The system described below should be done on the 10-page chunk before you move to the next set of pages and start the method over again.
Have a highlighter in hand, a pen or pencil and paper or notecards (depending on your preference). Writing in the book itself is highly recommended, but if you have some reason for not doing that, you might also want post-its and use those on each page in place of writing in the book. If the book is already highlighted by a previous reader (not ideal situation) please use a highlighter of a different color.
The system:
P2R
Preview
Read Actively (includes reading, highlighting, note-taking)
Review
Let's take a closer look. Feel free to grab a textbook to use as example as you read this portion.
Preview:
You would most likely not travel to another country without getting a lay of the land first. Often we read a tourism book or look at a map. We might try to learn a few words in the other language. If the country is similar to our own (England speaks the same language as the U.S. so feels more familiar) we might do less preparation than if it is seems very different from our own (Japan has an alphabet/language quite different from the U.S.). This advance preparation allows us to get off the plane and have a sense of what we know and don't know, what questions we will need to ask and where we want to head first.
Previewing a textbook accomplishes much the same thing. Start by looking at the beginning of your 10-page chunk. Read section titles. If no titles, read first lines of paragraphs. Read the last paragraph. Glance over charts or photos used on the pages. Read study questions or summaries that might be given at the end of the chunk of pages. Now, take a moment to think about what you have just seen. What do you think will be the main topic of that section? What do you already know about it from your childhood, past courses or other readings in this current class? What is your biggest question right now--what more do you need to know?
Now, you have a sense of where you are heading. Hopefully, you are a bit curious about what you will be reading, have some questions in your mind and will be able to fit what you read into a bigger context of where it fits into the whole chapter.
Read Actively:
Do not take notes or highlight as you read; this tends to break up your flow and diminish your understanding. It also isn't very productive, because you don't know if the first sentence is worth taking notes on until after you have read the third sentence, which might be the real point of the paragraph. So, read at least one complete paragraph or a short section before you stop to take notes and highlight.
Your first step after you read the paragraph is to highlight a phrase or two that were the important parts that you'll need to know for future reference. Don't pick just words (too little) or whole sentences (too much). Exceptions to this might be dates or definitions. The idea is that you could re-read JUST the highlighted portion in a month and get the gist of the paragraph without having to re-read the whole paragraph.
Now go to the margins (or your post-its) and start writing a question or two for the paragraph. This might be "What years were considered the Renaissance?" or "What is the meaning of metamorphosis?" When you get done with the entire ten page section, you will go back and try to answer these questions without looking at the book . If you need to cheat and look at the book, you should underline those highlighted notes to show that you need to study that more. If you could answer it, you are doing well on recalling that paragraph.
This is also a good time to make some notes for class. Take a sheet of paper or a notecard and write down questions that you want to ask in class (to understand a concept or to ask how it connects to something else you've read,etc.). Write down any observations or opinions you want to share with the class. You may want to jot down page numbers and quotes that may be useful to discuss in class.
Some people prefer to also make these notes in their margins or at the end of the chapter. That is fine.
Now read the next paragraph or short section (one column, for example) and do the same process as above.
hope it helps you...