Cerritos College

The library has several general resources you can use to gather information on your topic. Your search for information can be done using books, periodicals (magazines, journals, newspapers), and Internet resources and sites.

The Library Catalog is used to find books available in this library. You can find books that provide a broad overview of your topic, and others that give more in-depth information. Your research will most often be done using subject or keyword search techniques. This library uses the Library of Congress (LC) subject headings, which are very specific. Keyword searches allow you to use words that are associated with your topic. Subject searches will bring more direct results, but keyword searches are best used when you are unfamiliar with the LC subject headings.

Electronic books are available through clicking the NetLibrary link on the Cerritos College Library’s home page: http://netlibrary.com/.

Please note: As students of Cerritos College, you have borrowing privileges at CSU, Long Beach Library. You must have a photo ID card with a current registration sticker affixed. You can search their catalog at: http://coast.csulb.edu.

EBSCOhost Masterfile Premier

NewsBank InfoWeb: Los Angeles Times, Washington Post

Note: use quotations around the search term "speed reading",

limit search to the Best matches first and all documents

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books, periodicals and Internet-based resources. It is important that you critically evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A short list of Internet sites is provided here that may be useful for your search for information on speed reading. This is only a sample of the types of sites available on the Internet.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/docs/6_reading_myths.doc

Addresses six misconceptions that can hamper reading speed and comprehension.

History of Speed Reading
http://www.speakernetnews.com/tsem/handouts/abbyhistoryofreading.pdf

Reprinted from Chapter 4 of 10 Days to Faster Reading, edited by Abby Marks-Beale of the Princeton Language Institute. This article, written by Pam Mullan, presents a brief history of speed reading with some emphasis on Evelyn Wood.

Speed Reading

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Speed_reading

Wikibooks is a Wikimedia Foundation project, set up to provide open-content books online, free of charge.

Speed Reading Self-Pacing Methods
http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/methods.html

Article authored by Dennis Doyle, Associate Professor of Reading Education at Glendale Community College, which describes simple motion techniques to increase reading speed, such as the hand, card, sweep and the ziz-zag.

Speed Reading Strategies: Speeding Through Reading
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~kshawes/speed01.html

Offers basic information about speed reading techniques such as reading academic textbooks and novels, as well as examples of typical multiple-choice questions used on standardized tests. The site also includes a list of resources to enhance speed reading.

Speed Reading Test Online
http://www.readingsoft.com/

Fun site to test your reading speed, with some analysis of the results. Site sponsored by a vendor of speed reading software.

Suggestions for Improving Reading Speed
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/suggest.html

Article provided by Virginia Tech's Division of Student Affairs that provides some insight to factors that reduce reading rates and conditions for increased reading rates.

You can also do your own Internet search using a search engine to help find what you need. The techniques used for searching may differ from one search engine to another. Google was used for this library orientation. The address/URL for Google is http://www.google.com.

Sample keyword searches for the Internet:

"speed reading"

"speed reading" + history

"speed reading" + methods

When you get your results, be sure to look at the Directory tab.

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