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lovetokissnylons -> RE: Evelynn Wood- reading class (12/23/2006 9:01:29 PM)
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The speed-reading course I took was not Evelyn Wood's, but was really helpful to me. It was not so much technique-based, rather based on attitude and purpose and approach to the reading. That is, for readings that are more enjoyable to savor slowly over a glass of wine, then do it that way; for other readings, when speed is necessary or desirable, then try to comprehend as much as you can while "reading" (in the sense of seeing and sub-vocalizing every word) as LITTLE as you can.
The extreme case is that we were given the title of a Reader's Digest article, then were NOT allowed any time to read it, then were given a test of comprehension. Because of the kind of article that you KNOW is in Reader's Digest, and the kind of problem, then solution, then good fuzzy feeling pattern that many or most Reader's Digest articles have, all the class needed to know was the article's title and the fact that it came from Reader's Digest for most of us to pass the comprehension test (not perfectly, but good enough). That was a pretty dramatic demonstration, I thought, of the point of speed reading: read with your brain, and not your eyes or your voice.
So, if that's what the Evelyn Wood course sounds like it's going to teach, then it would probably be a good thing. Hope this helps.
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