March 9. What is Reading?

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Reading must be the interaction of many variables in the reading process. What kinds of reading interaction have you experienced? Think about your reading process and try to apply your thought into any interaction model introduced in this chapter.

I think I am both a top-down reader and a bottom-up reader. When I strat reading, I firstly look at the title of reading material. Thinking about the title, I predict genre, topic and purpose of reading materials. And I also try to see what content is going to be while I am reading. If the content is familiar with me, I recall my background knowledge or shema about the content. This makes me raed fast. Someteimes I can not fully understand reading material using only a top-down approach. For this reason, I use a bottom-up approah too. If there is a difficult sentence, I try to interpretate sentence carefully and look a dictionary. But this is time-consuming and inefficient. Therefore, I usaully use two approaches at the same time. Firstly, I look at the title and subtitle thinking what is a main topic. And I read fast underlining the sentences which are difficult to understand. After I get main idea and knowledge, I read underlined sentences carefully. I believe this reading process makes me read efficiently and effectively.