Alan David Pritchard was a primary and secondary teacher for 15 years. He has also lectured at colleges and presently works as the in-house writer for a education company called Positively Mad.

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Tips for increasing reading comprehension in college students

So here you are fresh into college, and despite having read a few books in your life thus far, you suddenly find yourself faced with a mountain of knowledge bulging out of text and reference books that you need to read and digest in a pretty short space and time. I have to concede, it seems a pretty daunting task, and quite off-putting if you are not a regular reader or someone who has trained himself to speed-read.
It appears there are two issues here: the sheer volume of necessary reading that needs to be done, and the ...

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