Reading Comprehension

Started by Palamon May 23rd, 2019 6:33 PM
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Palamon

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How's your reading comprehension? Sometimes, mine isn't so great if I don't care about the topic.

Cherrim

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My reading comprehension is generally great until I'm reading academic writing where you have to look up every other word because the author was in a heated relationship with their thesaurus and the average sentence is 100 words in length and by the end of the sentence you don't even remember what the topic is because your eyes have glazed over and you're ready for the global warming to hurry up and bring on the next mass extinction so that you won't have to worry about the paper you're trying to write with this source.

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Outside of field-specific academic terminology in scientific journals and region-specific slang, it's fine. I have always read quite a lot, and it's not very often I stumble across new things these days...although that said, there are plenty of fields of study I am completely ignorant of and would probably struggle to understand without some more simplified background reading first. Even literature reviews tend to assume a basic knowledge that if I don't have I would struggle to comprehend.

Megan

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It's fairly ok, I'd say.

It gets a bit difficult whenever I read more complicated texts. Especially those that go over at least half a page and explain abstractions, made up of more abstractions, by comparing them with other abstractions, also made up of more abstractions, to ultimately come to a conclusion (as an abstraction, which of course is made up of more abstractions) all packed in a sentence that starts innocent up until the first comma, from which point on you'll delve into the very first part - that is, until you get to the first subsentence, usually surrounded by "-", one that in itself could go about half a page - only to reconvene back to the original sentence, which then swiftly introduces you to the second part, only make you realize that "second" does not equate to "last".

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For someone that writes often, my reading comprehension is not good at all. In elementary and middle school, whenever I did the state tests I would be below average and a few grades below. Also for the SAT tests on the English/reading sections I got low scores. I somehow survived many business textbooks in college, though I think it's because they're usually more accessible than other textbooks and such I had read.
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gimmepie

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My reading comprehension is... I don't know it's hard to say. In general I'm on the higher end of the scale for anything academic and reading comprehension isn't really an exception, but sometimes being autistic gets in the way of things. It varies I suppose.
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Mine has always been fairly high, especially when I was in my early school years. Where I thrive in reading comprehension I unfortunately fall greatly short in subjects involving math.