The Speed Reading Course By Peter Shepherd & Gregory Unsworth-Mitchell Email: shepherd@trans4mind.com Web site: Tools for Transformation Copyright © 1997 Peter Shepherd The Basics of Reading Introduction We all learn to read at school‚ after a fashion. But for most of us‚ this is not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn to better use the left brain’s focused attention combined with the right brain’s peripheral attention‚ in close harmony. Good communication
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Awareness in Reading: EFL Students’ Metacognitive Knowledge of Reading Strategies in an Acquisition-poor Environment Lawrence Jun Zhang National Institute of Education‚ Nanyang Technological University‚ Singapore Although studies on L2 learning strategies are a major strand of second-language research‚ recent research interest has focussed on language learners’ metacognitive knowledge or awareness of strategies. Previous research has shed important light on the amelioration in L2 educational
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A team of psychologists at Moscow’s Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) wanted to learn more about the dynamics of long-term isolation in space. This knowledge would be applied to the International Space Station‚ a joint project of several countries that would send people into space for more than six months. It would eventually include a trip to Mars taking up to three years. IBMP set up a replica of the Mir space station in Moscow. They then arranged for three international researchers from
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Palmistry We all wonder what awaits us in the future. We wonder about our health‚ our careers and of course‚ our love life. Well the answer to all of these questions may lie quite literally in the palm of your hand. Palmistry‚ or palm reading‚ is the practice of predicting the future outcomes through the study of the palm. This study dates back to 3000 BC in ancient Egypt and still being practiced today worldwide. Today we will discuss how our palm lines can tell us about our future and ourselves
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The Joy of Reading‚ or‚ What Reading Really Means to Me When I was first asked to make this short speech‚ I was struck by the title “What Reading Means to Me.” My knee-jerk reaction was “What doesn’t reading mean to me?” As a professional librarian‚ I thought of all of our standard platitudes: “Reading is Life.” “Reading is Fundamental.” “There is no such thing as too many books.” I might easily have gone on and on along this vein‚ until I remembered that‚ for me
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Vincent Freeman Buckman Lab Analysis Diane Enklemann 03/29/2010 The analysis of Buckman Laboratories kind of departmentalization used to operate the business made me come to the conclusion that it is a Customer Departmentalization. It was a hard choice because the departmentalization type was very close to the functional departmentalization‚ for it because the company acts as a means to produce chemical products as well as a knowledge engine with K’netix. A functional departmentalization would
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Reading Fluency and its Effect on Reading Comprehension Topic Selection As an elementary teacher‚ I have often thought reading fluency plays a large role in a child’s reading development. Few reading programs give fluency the recognition it deserves. Reading fluency has been a prominent and reliable benchmark for me‚ even when students have comprehension difficulties. Once fluency is assessed‚ the results were used to place students in their reading ability group. Often times‚
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Reading Reflection Question 1. What does Heilbroner mean by the ’economic problem ’ and how does ’tradition ’‚ ’command ’ and ’the market ’ "solve" it? Why does Heilbroner think ’economics ’ is of no use for studying pre-market economies? (chapter 1). In the first chapter of this book‚ the author illustrated several concepts. Firstly‚ ‘economic problem’ was defined as “extraordinary variety of ways in which human communities have wrestled with” (Heilbroner‚ p.9). Secondly‚ ‘tradition’
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Topic: “Reading” Submitted To: Ma’m Neelma Submitted By: Ayesha Munir BBA ITM (21) Contents Topics: Pg. No. * Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….…2 * Importance of Reading……………………………………………………………..…...3 * Fluent reading……………………………………………………………………..………...3 * Three Stages of Reading…………………………………………………………………4
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Robot waiters never lose patience Last updated 05:00 23/12/2010 ROBOT WAITER: Robots serve as entertainers‚ servers‚ greeters and receptionists at the Dalu Robot restaurant. Service with a smile also comes with an electronic voice at the Dalu Robot restaurant‚ where the hotpot meals are not as famous yet as the staff who never lose their patience and never take tips. The restaurant‚ which opened this month in Jinan in northern Shandong province‚ is touted as China’s first robot hotpot eatery
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