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Slow Reading by John Miedema, published by Litwin Books, LLC: In the face of ever-increasing demands for speed-reading of volumes of information fragments, some readers are choosing to slow down.
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"It's not just about students reading as slowly as possible," Miedema says.
Slow Notion 2010
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Miedema, a technology specialist at IBM in Ottawa, Ontario, admits that there's no hard science behind the ideas of a Slow Reading Movement, and that research on the subject has been confined largely to cases of dyslexia.
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"It's not just about students reading as slowly as possible," Miedema says.
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Though slow, or close reading, always has been emphasized at the college-level in literary criticism and other areas, it's also popping up in elementary schools, Miedema said.
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Miedema, a technology specialist at IBM in Ottawa, admits there's not much hard science behind his idea, but says it's "fairly well established that speed reading tends to reduce comprehension, while slowing down increases comprehension."
Slow Notion 2010
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Miedema, a technology specialist at IBM in Ottawa, Ontario, said little formal research has been done on slow reading, other than studies on physical conditions such as dyslexia.
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Better methods of risk assessment could potentially allow us to target more people truly at high risk for an event and avoid excessive treatment of those who are low risk, Miedema concluded.
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"For those patients with known coronary disease, the evidence and guidelines are fairly clear about the benefit of aggressive medical therapy, including an aspirin and statin, regardless of your age or gender," said Dr. Michael Miedema, a cardiology fellow at the University of Minnesota working with researchers at the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.
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But this approach is heavily weighted toward age and gender, according to Miedema.
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