PSR Strategies

Summary on chapter 9 from CRCB Using Preview, Study-Read, and Review(PSR)Strategies.
The PSR technique requires that you question yourself before, during and after you read. It encourages you to participate in a reader-author conversation rather than to read passively. In this conversation, you access what the author says and decide if it makes sense to you. By asking questions, predicting textbook content, and hypothesizing about the main idea, you are participating in a conversation with the author. You also add what you know to the conversation by recalling related information. It helps to understand and remember the text material.

The PSR technique also requires responding to readings by writing in your journal. Commenting in writing helps to digest and understand an author's ideas and articulate your own, by identifying exactly where you become confused in a reading, you can return to that point and reread the relevant section of text.

The PSR technique also requires you to respond to readings by writing in your journal. Review reading using your journal can helps you to understand an author’s ideas and helps you relate the material to what you already know.

There are many different strategies in studying one of the strategies is known as PSR. In PSR There are three basic steps the first preview, this is where you get a glimpse in what you will be reading, how long the reading of study assignment is and a the major points in your reading. This process is called skimming and it when you quickly read through the whole chapter to get an idea of what later you will be going in to depth with.