Re: Procrastination!

[Anonymous]

Nellie, now that I don’t have to read a book by a certain deadline (other than the due date at the library), I don’t beat myself up so much about not reading them. Some days I get a paragraph or two in, other days none. But you’re right, breaking it down into pieces is the way to go. When I learned more about study habits, I found out that I could approach the book the way it was organized, looking at the chapters headings first to get a general layout, reading the intro (which I would never had done before, too anxious to get into the book) which always gives a good overview, then reading first and last paragraphs of a chapter, then first and last sentences of a paragraph, etc. By the time I read the whole text I already knew what was coming and it was something like a review. And I took notes in an outline form, filling in more details as I came across them. I have to make notes or the reading is lost in space.

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