Now that you have reflected on the techniques that may have helped you before, it is worth considering some new methods which you could use when tackling academic reading. The following pages focus on some techniques that will help you with your academic reading. Each of these sections centres in on some of the core skills required to successfully approach academic reading.

In your own time, click through each of these and explore. You will have noticed in the videos from the students that different people tend to find their own particular approach to academic reading. Each of the individual tasks invites you to reflect on what might work best for you. These tasks have been developed with reference to educational and psychological studies that prove they work! Whilst we want to stress that there is not a one size fits all approach to academic reading, these techniques and methods could prove helpful to you in honing your skills as an academic reader.

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