Everyone feel overwhelmed when they face hundreds of pages reading at a week. While some people are able to absorb the essential information of paper in short time, other students poured all their time reading the book but failed to remember a world. The difference comes from different reading methods. In my opinion, those students who use less time finishing reading with better result all used “active reading”. It is composed of two strategies Firstly, searching topic sentence. In majority of reading, we did not even need to read the whole passage to understand authors’ ideas. Given the limited time, the best way to look materials is to read the topic sentence and summary authors ideas. By doing so, we are able to catch authors’ ideas effectively. Secondly, taking notes. My teacher always told us that …show more content…
Since I was in the elementary school, my English writing teach always praise me for this characteristic. In high school, we were asked to write a travel diary, which I was interested in. I spent almost my entire week on composing the paper. I did the research about the place I been to, I edited the photos about the travel, and I revised the drafts over to reach satisfaction. It turns out that unlike others’ papers with plain description, mine was complimented by all my classmates and teacher and posted on the “Sample paper wall”. Even now, I can still recall that rewarding experience as I writer. It made me believe that people can excel in things that they