STUDYING LITERATURE
HOW TO STUDY ENGLISH
READING
As the study of
English always require reading, it is very necessary to understand the types of
reading, the purpose of reading, the different rates of reading, and certain physical
and mental attitudes involved in good reading.
1.
THE TYPES OF READING:
a.
“Intensive” ---- slow, very thorough, very careful
reading as in proof-reading a composition or in the reading of directions as to
how to do something, of difficult poems or prose passages, and of material
presenting an abstruse idea.
b.
“Study- type”----careful, thorough, thoughtful
reading, such as of literary history, essays and poems of average difficulty,
and f8iction read critically.
c.
“Extensive”---
recreational-type reading, as of plays , novels, short stories, and magazine
articles, especially those assigned for outside reading or those which are read
for pleasure.
d. “Skimming”---rapid turning of pages and scanning of lines to find a
particular piece of information (a definition in a dictionary, the names of
characters involved in a particular action in a novel, the date of an author’s
birth or the place of his burial, etc.) or to gain a general idea of something,
as is done in forming a quick impression of a book and should be done in a
first reading of a “study-type” assignment.
