I attended a workshop held by SACC: “Everything you need to know to complete your reading” on October 20,2009. To my surprise, in total only 8 people came to this workshop and it finished 30 minutes earlier. The small number of people coming might be caused by another workshop held by the Writing Center on the same topic and relatively at the same time.
During the workshop, the instructor quickly covered active reading as she assumed most of us have already done it in high school. She also discuss about the note-taking strategies. Instead of reading and paying attention on all the details (which is actually not bad), she also suggested us to always look at the class’ syllabus to be aware of the points which the professor want us to learn. At the last, she gave us the chance to practice the skills by reading an article from the New York Times and finding its main point.