Speed Reading : State-of-the-Art Techniques to Improve Your Reading Speed and Comprehension--Based on the Latest Discoveries about the Human Brain

by Buzan, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780452266049
• ISBN10: 0452266041
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-30
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

The newly revised and updated edition of the classic book on improving reading speed and comprehension. Buzan offers a flexible approach to reading, combining traditional information on speed reading with the latest discoveries about the potential and workings of the brain.

Author Biography

Tony Buzan is one of the world's leading authorities on the brain and learning techniques. His training companies advise top- and middle-management executives of such corporations as IBM and Mobil. In addition, a number of widely hailed television programs have been created around his learning techniques, among them the famed ten-part BBC series "Use Your Head," which served as the basis for his global bestseller, Use Both Sides of Your Brain.

Table of Contents

Speed Reading Editor's Foreword

Part One: About Reading

1. The Starting Point – Check Your Normal Reading Speed and Comprehension
Self Test 1 – The Intelligence War

2. Reading – A New Definition

3. The Common Reading Problems – Subvocalisation, Finger-Pointing, Regression and Back-Skipping – New Approaches to Overcoming Them
Self Test 2 – Introduction to Psychology

4. Improving Your Concentration and Increasing Your Comprehension

Part Two: Your Amazing Eyes

5. Gaining Control of Your Eye Movements to Increase Your Speed and Comprehension

6. Guiding the Eyes – A New Speed and Range Reading Technique

7. Eye-Deal External and Internal Environmental Range Reading Conditions
Self Test 3 – Methods of Science

8. Developing Advanced Skimming and Scanning Skills

9. Meta-Guiding Towards 'Photographic Memory' Reading Levels
Self Test 4 – History

Part Three: Developing Advanced Range Reading Skills

10. Keeping the Beat – Multiplying Your Speed by the New Metronome Training Method
Self Test 5 – The Major Musical Instruments

11. Mind Mapping – A New Dimension in Thinking and Note-Taking

12. Using Knowledge of Paragraph Structure to Increase Speed and Comprehension

13. Previewing – Your Mental Reconnaissance
Self Test 6 – Art – Primitive to Christian

14. Developing Your Mastermind Vocabulary (I) Prefixes and Exercises

15. Developing Your Mastermind Vocabulary (II) Suffixes and Exercises

16. Developing Your Mastermind Vocabulary (III) Roots and Exercises

Part Four: Using Your Eye/Brain Systems – Applications

17. The Mind Map Organic Study Technique (MMOST) – How to Prepare
Self Test 7 – Art – Gothic to National Schools

18. Getting Control of Your Newspapers
Self Test 8 – Astronomy

19. The Logic of Logic

20. Getting the Full Value from Literature and Poetry
Self Test 9 – The History of Communications

21. Creating Your Knowledge File – Your Brain's External Data Bank

22. What You Have Accomplished So Far – Your Extraordinary Possibilities For the Future
Self Test 10 – The Enchanted Loom – Your Brain

Self Test Answers
Appendix
Bibliography
Index