The Active Skim: Efficient Reading as a Moral Challenge in Postgraduate Education
The Active Skim: Efficient Reading as a Moral Challenge in Postgraduate Education
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主动略读：有效阅读是研究生教育中的道德挑战
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2017
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G. Fine
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Hannah Wohl;G. Fine
教师和学生都认识到，要在研究生院取得成功，有效阅读和理解的能力是至关重要的。学生们必须能够处理新呈现给他们的信息，即使这些信息看起来势不可挡。理解、讨论和利用相关文本是学者写作的核心。但是什么是合适的阅读技巧，什么时候使用不同的策略，为了什么目的？在一个分配的数量超过合理处理能力的世界里，什么构成了合法的实践？在这篇对话文章中，我们以对36名历史学、经济学和社会学的社会科学研究生的访谈研究为基础，讨论了略读的作用。我们询问学生对略读的必要性和适当性的看法，他们如何磨练自己的技能，以及什么构成了规范标准。我们将略读视为一种“合理的越轨行为”，是职业生存所必需的，但也是一种对学术自我形象潜在挑战的策略。学生们学习的技巧使他们能够快速阅读和回忆信息以备后用，但在研究生培训中很少公开讨论这些技巧的适当使用。
Faculty and students recognize that to succeed in graduate school, the ability to read efficiently and with comprehension is crucial. Students must be able to process information newly presented to them, even when that information seems overwhelming. Comprehending, discussing, and utilizing relevant texts are central to the production of scholars. But what constitutes appropriate techniques of reading, when does one employ various strategies, and for what purposes? In a world in which more is assigned than can reasonably be processed, what constitutes a legitimate practice? In this conversation essay, we discuss the role of skimming, building upon an interview study of 36 social science graduate students in history, economics, and sociology. We ask what students believe about the necessity and appropriateness of skimming, how they honed their skills, and what constitutes normative standards. We treat skimming as a form of “legitimate deviance,” necessary for occupational survival but a strategy that is potentially a challenge to an academic self-image. Students learn techniques that allow them to read rapidly and recall information for later use, but the appropriate use of these techniques is rarely discussed openly in graduate training.