Incremental reading is a newly proposed learning technique in which the student studies a substantial load of material subdivided into articles and its extracts. All articles and extracts are processed according to the rules of
spaced repetition. This means that all processed pieces of information are presented at increasing intervals. Individual articles are read in portions proportional to the attention span, which depends on the user, his mood, the article, etc. The name "incremental" comes from "reading in portions". Without the use of spaced repetition, the reader would quickly get lost in the glut of information when studying dozens of subjects at the same time. However, spaced repetition makes it possible to retain traces of the processed material in memory. Incremental reading makes it possible to read hundreds of articles at the same time with a substantial gain to
attention. For incremental reading to leave a permanent mark in
long-term memory, the processed material must be gradually converted into material based on
active recall. This means that extracts such as "George Washington was the first US President" must be changed to questions such as "Who was the first US President?", "Who was George Washington?", etc.
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