Reading Journal

My reading journal

After reading, I still have no idea of the main events and just got some fragments of the event. I do not think these techniques affected my reading ability, and I did not see much help. As for reading rate increase, it is not much. Actually, in my personal view, little change will be generated after just two passages’ training which is less sufficient. Personally speaking, the best technique for reading varies from essays to essays, depending on its type. Take narrative for example, there is no need or use to adopt the uniform method that we should read the first and last paragraph and then look at the first sentence of each body paragraph. Because reading a story is like reading a picture, if we just look at the top and bottom and then some thin space in the middle, with majority part of the picture unknown, we still have no idea what the picture is about. However, for most comparison essays or argument essays, this method will be of great help for us to gain a main idea of the whole essay in a short time. All in all, every road leads to Rome. I believe there are also various ways for different essays and each type of essay has its unique rather than uniform way to be adopted.