10 Days to Faster Reading Page 17
Day 6 – It's All Relative
Day 7 – The Ties that Bind (fiction reading)
Day 8 – Books Join the Electronic Wave
Day 9 – A Few Words
Day 10 – April Fools Day
Acknowledgements
This book is a reality because of the help and support of the following individuals: My husband, Chris, who tolerated my early morning absences and reviewed each chapter before submission.
My kids, who provided me with the humor breaks I desperately needed.
My mother, for instilling an early love of reading, which I forgot about until I was way past my college years.
Christopher Lee, who provided me with the incredibly powerful car racing analogies and jargon.
Pamela Mullan, who provided insight about speed reading in her essay "The History of Speed Reading," included in Days 4 and 5, and her many valuable contributions too numerous to mention.
Louise Loomis, director of The Cognitive Center (Hartford, Connecticut), for her contribution to Day 6 on the "Nine Guidelines for Critical Reading."
John Whitman, whose writing talent is displayed in many of the timed reading activities.
Joni McPherson for her graphic arts skill in formatting this ebook from the print version.
Jon Kaufman, who skillfully retyped the entire manuscript for this ebook version, Jamie Saxon and Eileen Koutnik, my editors at The Philip Lief Group, who answered my questions and kept me on schedule for the printed version.
Other authors and researchers in the field of reading too numerous to mention, whose wisdom and insights I have learned and subsequently shared.
And finally, I thank the participants in my workshops, who ask great questions and prove to me time and again why I do this for a living.
About the Authors
The Philip Lief Group is a book developer based in Princeton, New Jersey, which produces a wide range of language and usage guides, including Grammar 101, Guide to Pronunciation, and Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus. The Philip Lief Group has been singled out by the New York Times for its "consistent best' sellers" and by Time magazine for being "bottom-line think tankers."
The Princeton Language Institute is a consortium of experts composed of linguists, lexicographers, writers, teachers, and businesspeople. The institute focuses on developing easy-to-read self-help books in a nonacademic format for writers, businesspeople, and virtually anyone who wants to enhance their communication and language skills. The Princeton Language Institute is based in Princeton, New Jersey.
Corporate productivity specialist Abby Marks Beale is the president and sole proprietor of The Corporate Educator, a speaking and training business that helps busy people work smarter, faster and just plain better. She has been teaching speed reading to busy professionals, educators and students since 1988. In addition, she is also a specialist in teaching Email Management and Etiquette and Time and Stress Management. Abby teaches her own speed reading course called Rev It Up Reading: Getting Up to Speed With What You Read on-site at corporations, at association conferences and most recently online. Abby is also the author of The Complete Idiots
Guide to Speed Reading and several study skills publications, including Success Skills: Strategies for Study and Lifelong Learning. For more, please visit www.TheCorporateEducator.com and www.RevItUpReading.com.