How To Read Faster And Wider Enough To Help Your Dissertation Get Completed On Time?
Reading more efficiently, can save lots of time. Reading efficiently (in context of dissertation) means to understand key ideas quickly and finding specific information you don’t need to read a lot.
With an overview of key topic and the structure of literature, read the whole thing, following this order
• Read the summary or abstract.
• Read headings and subheadings and check structure of the text.
• Then read introduction and go direct to the conclusion.
By this you can get overall understanding of the content and its purpose. The starting and ending point makes it faster and easier to understand the whole body because you get aware about which part of the text is of your concerned.
If only few parts of content are relevant, go directly to those parts. It they are long quickly find most relevant paragraphs by reading first few lines of every paragraph.
To find particular piece of information, scan the txt by moving your eyes rapid across the page. Sometimes, tables, figures and tables may guide you where information can be found. They are easier to see and often close to explanation of body. While reading books index and glossary can help.
Companies do sell courses on speedy reading, their rationale, cost and method may vary. Typically the focus is on decreasing fixation length or the period of time when your eyes stop moving with focus on specific part of text. Also they focus on increasing recognition span i.e. number of words you take during one fixation. However learning centers never endorse such type of courses.
How to Ensure Widely Enough Reading While Fast Reading
Professors suggest to read widely on the course. Often lecturer gives explicit instructions on how much one must read or how many sources to be referred in an assignments. But often students need to ask or look for more information.
Here is a guideline to decide how much reading is necessary;
• type of an assignment i.e. reflected journal or a literature review
• time available
• words count of your dissertation
• year level, postgraduate or undergraduate
• Discipline (e.g. science/engineering or humanities discipline
• marks allocated for the dissertation or the part of dissertation
You must read enough to answer the question completely. While reading, list down the aspects of topics you will write about. More you read, more references and detail you can add for all aspects of your topic. By this you can see some parts already have enough references and detail. You also find Dissertation Help online if there is any weakness or gap that needs more reading.