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I don't really find his initial assertion correct at all: > Professors assign more than you can possibly read in any normal fashion. I took a chembio and CS b
by lnanek2 11y ago
I don't really find his initial assertion correct at all:
> Professors assign more than you can possibly read in any normal fashion.
I took a chembio and CS bachelors degree at an expensive private institution and a software development masters at a large public institution and read all assigned reading quite easily. Actually, I'd usually read all the textbooks before the semester even started.
That said, I do find his speed reading methods useful. I'd usually speed read the book a couple times first before reading entirely through, and speed read the relevant chapter before any exam. If you only read the reading material once through, you are doing something wrong, since that isn't the way to memorize it.
- gargarplex 11y ago> I don't really find his initial assertion correct at all > any normal fashion >Actually, I'd usually read all the textbooks before the semester even started. Check your logic
- dwmtm 11y agoHe covered this: > I'd usually speed read
- gargarplex 11y agoClarify the syllogism?
- dwmtm 11y ago"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." - Woody Allen
- rquantz 11y agoThis also is probably more focused on degrees in the humanities, where it is more common practice to have to a read a few books a week for a course, rather than a few chapters a week from a text book.
- loevborg 11y agoThe problem is real. Reading assignments are much longer and often more challenging in the humanities than in the sciences. If you study history or sociology or philosophy, you're expected to read long and (initially) seemingly incomprehensible articles and books every week.
- periphrasislove 11y agoAs others have pointed out, this is more specific to the Humanities. I had a Classics professor who probably averaged 150 page reading assignments per lecture -- of non-trivial authors like Thucydides, Aristotle, or Livy -- with many assignments going north of 200 pages. As a junior and senior Classics major, I probably read 1000 pages a week on average between all of my classes, plus maybe another 30 pages of reading in Latin and/or Greek, which obviously took a lot longer to get through, lol. Computer Science coursework always felt like a welcome relief from the time spent in front of the printed page: a lot of programming lab and project time, but only about 50 pages of reading per week, if even that much.