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Old 12-20-2005, 09:33 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
In university, when I had a stack of books I'd have to read, I would read the first few paragraphs of a chapter or section completely and then only the first and last sentence of each paragraph until the concluding paragraph, and then I'd read the whole paragraph.

I found this technique would help me read a very large amount in a short time and still get most of the details.
yes this must be a very efficient method as in our engg 251 course, they explained to us that this is an effective way to read large amounts of text, or to just do research.
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