The Importance Of Effective Reading

Effective reading can enable a person to expand their vocabulary as well as improve their understanding of punctuation use, correct grammar, and utilization of literary components. As a student, I have been determined to develop strong reading skills for purposes of enhancing my communication and expression in real life situations. My first year of university, I was struggling with extracting information from reading materials. It was difficult for me to focus on the pertinent information when I couldn’t fully understand the scholarly works and higher reading levels my classes required. I realized I needed to improve my reading comprehension in order to be successful not only in school, but with my career and future endeavors. I decided to practice reading strategies with numerous literary works, beginning with Shakespeare’s Hamlet. I believe there is a strong correlation between the challenges I faced and the improvement I saw in my reading comprehension during and after reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the overall

Even though I wasn’t a strong reader, my ambitions and academic desires continuously pressured me towards becoming a good reader. I believe that fluent readers are also good leaders, as they are able to communicate more effectively. All this is to say that I acknowledge that reading is important in the contemporary society despite the fact the success in reading is often faced with challenges. I realized that reading was a challenge and a cause of stress for me during the dawn of my tertiary level learning. It is my inability to read effectively that forced me to read Hamlet. Unfortunately, initially I struggled immensely with reading Hamlet and was discouraged. For instance, I had trouble understanding the numerous short forms included in the play. The complexity of some of the vocabulary and sentence structures also clouded my