Dang...this link says Evelyn could read 2,700 words a minute.
I didn't even know there were that many words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Wood_(teacher)
It’s a method. Lay out the premises. I can do it too.
But it won’t be with a difficult text.
What businessmen “read” is about an 8th grade comprehension level. At that low bar one is looking for key phrases and some vocabulary. The lead-up, the revelation, and a few downsides. (The hinges and the lock).
Newspapers are at 2nd grade level. The less challenging, the easier (faster) to observe something as paragraphs versus words in sentences.
Let’s presuppose one is well past “sounding out” the words in one’s head.
1). A population which doesn’t read doesn’t have a future.
2). As (also) writing about what one has read clarifies understanding.
3). Thus grammar. Punctuation. (the rhythm).
4). As a dance, that undergirds the whole. Consider a foxtrot to a Harry James classic. The better dancer is slightly ahead of the interpretation being played. His intuitions allow him to lead his wife. (One’s consciousness is just slightly ahead of the sentence, for general purposes). James’s greatness is the depth of the interpretation. (Even when the song is familiar — one knows the lyrics from other artists — Harry brought up more).
Literacy is other than what our country and its average sixth grade reading ability believes (If it thinks about it at all). Control for college-educated and it still doesn’t reach what once was expected of advanced high schoolers.
Speed-reading is what one uses in examining a book worthy of the time to have read it WELL. It is a preparatory tool.
A stack of books on a subject is aid to sharpening one’s thesis. It’s “felt “. That stack is winnowed down to a few. To speak well (to write well) is to have touched the heart of others.
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