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Rapid Serial Visual Presentation - A Study Aid

by Brendan O'Keefe

Rapid Serial Visual Presentation – A study Aid


An electronic version of skimming, RSVP is a way of browsing data in an e book or on a web page.
Words are displayed in short chunks of text in rapid succession and the user can determine the speed and size of the text being displayed.
This speed reading technique requires software much of which is freely available on the Internet.

Why use the tool?


We can quickly gain an overall impression of what the book or text is about,and how its is constructed. When researching or studying we aim to seek out only the data or information we require from a page filled with hundreds of words. Most of the text serves no purpose other than to join sentences to fill up a body of work.

We don’t always need these ‘filler’ words to get the point or understand the message in the text. RSVP is a valuable tool to assist us to move rapidly through the text and pick out important information related to our desired learning outcomes.


Chunking

Finding what you are looking for in a body of text can take a great deal of time. Small chucks of words are quickly digested and only the information required is absorbed.

Get to the point

When researching or fact finding for an essay or term paper in our time poor society, RSVP can assist us to get to the bottom of the article, capture key points and move on to the next piece of information.

Revision

I use the RSVP Firefox extension for sifting through many text heavy web pages and also to quickly review my own writing.

Free Software



RSVP Reader – Firefox RSVP Extension

Zap Reader


Some from information and lots of external software and resources are available in this Wikipedia article.
I found the photos here via www.everystockphoto.com


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Last Updated At Apr 19, 2012
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