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Enhancing Reading Comprehension in Electronic Books: Strategies and Social Engagement

This article explores critical strategies for improving reading comprehension and engagement when using electronic books. Key methods include rereading, summarizing, and reorganizing content to build a comprehensive understanding. The interaction with eBooks is highlighted through navigation and annotation features, which enhance user engagement. Additionally, it emphasizes the social dimension of reading by enabling sharing and collaboration on annotations. As the digital landscape evolves, this work outlines the necessary adaptations for future eBook applications.

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Enhancing Reading Comprehension in Electronic Books: Strategies and Social Engagement

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  1. Reading the Electronic BookSome Essential Requirements Florian Ehrensperger LIBR 559L: Scholarly Communications June 7, 2011

  2. Overview • Reading: Comprehension & Learning • Interaction: Engagement • Reading as a SocialActivity: Sharing

  3. 1. Reading Marshall, 2010, p. 20

  4. Howtoimprovereadingcomprehension? • Rereading, paraphrasing, and summarizing in one’s own words to clarify the content • Reorganizing the content into hierarchical outline, diagram, or graph that shows the important relations between ideas • Consciously seeking relations between new content and existing knowledge • active construction of meaning during reading = interaction Kintsch & Kintsch, 2005, p. 84

  5. 2. Interaction • Annotations • Navigation & Orientation • Clipping

  6. Annotations I Marshall, 2010, p. 41

  7. Annotations II Sherman, 2007, p. 26

  8. Annotations III Sherman, 2007, p. 35

  9. Annotations IV Marshall, 2010, p. 48

  10. Navigation & Orientation • Navigation asks the question “how do I get there?,” while orientation asks the question, “where I am now?” • Page turning better than scrolling? • Neither the material nor the activity (reading for entertainment or information) predicts how individuals will approach navigation. Marshall, 2010, p. 20

  11. Clipping • the way people extract, save, and share portions of a longer work • “fundamental way that we should expect people to interact with electronic publications including eBooks. It is important to translate clippings’ functions and roles into requirements for eBook applications” Marshall, 2010, p. 60, 65

  12. Clipping Marshall, 2010, p. 52

  13. 3. Reading as a SocialActivity Sharing annotations Marshall, 2010, p. 85

  14. How to Create eBooks of the Future • “It is important to translate […] for eBook applications” • “because we are on a computer, we can do things with digital texts that we were never able to do with books” • Completely new approach Marshall, 2010, p. 9, 65

  15. Bibliography • Marshall, Catherine C. (2010). Reading and Writing the Electronic Book. Morgan & Claypool. • Kintsch, Eileen & Kintsch, Walter. (2005). Comprehension. In: Paris & Stahl (ed.), Children's reading comprehension and assessment, 71-92. • Sherman, William H. (2007). Used Books. Marking Readers in Renaissance England. University of Pennsylvania Press.

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