Reading and note taking preparation for study
1.2 How do you read? A good way of getting started on developing your reading and notetaking skills is to think about how you read now.
Activity 1 The short extract reproduced below is taken from The Scotsman and is a journalistic piece of writing, rather different from something you would read in a social science textbook. It focuses on a ‘child curfew’ scheme introduced in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in October 1997. Read through the extract and then: Jot down any feelings and thoughts you had about the content of the article: for example, did you feel that the idea of a child curfew scheme was a good one or did you have reservations about it? Think about how you read it: did it take you a long time to read?, did you read it straight through or did you have to stop and go back at intervals?, did you read each word individually or were you able to move more quickly, getting the general gist of the ‘story’?
