Tuning Your Reading

To make the go, no-go decision to keep something or pitch it, we often have to 

In fact, business reading requires that you have different speeds, that you tune your reading to the task at hand. Unfortunately, years of engineering schoolwork have taught many engineers to read at a methodical and often fairly slow speed, to absorb, for instance, aU the material in some fluids or electromagnetics text. In business, this approach is wasteful, and just recognizing that different materials deserve different levels of attention can help. 

A simple way to tune your reading is to think of reading at three basic speeds  

Experiment with skimming, scanning, and reading in the following explo- 

In general, it is best to approach a reading task with a skim followed by a scan and, if the information is sufficiently important, one or more readings. 

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A Read titles and abstracts 7B Prepare to write 7C Write your abstract 7D Write your title 7E Practice peer review 7F Fine-tune your abstract and title... 

You re-read a passage in a book several times because your mind keeps wandering. You tune out during conversations. You can t hear your son talk while your daughter pops her chewing gum. You are unable to follow the plot of a film. People with brain fog commonly... 

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