Reading

General reading skills

• Adapting your reading strategies to different materials
  A quick overview of essential reading skills. Stresses the importance of applying the right skills from reading at the appropriate depth.
• Learning to read faster
  Explains how some reading habits cause people to read slowly.

Reading skills for university studies

• Reading in the sciences
  Describes the characteristics of scientific writing and provides a step-to-step guide to handling this kind of material.

Reading materials

• South China Morning Post
  A good source of local news stories (but the Premium View stories are now for subscribers only).
• The New York Times
  An excellent site for in-depth news stories. Other features like Opinion and Magazine are also very interesting.
• http://www.time.com/time/
• Scientific American
• Far East Economic Review
• New Internationalist
  Reports on world issues of injustice and poverty.
• Academic Universe
  This is one of the databases that the University Library subscribes to. Excellent resource if you are looking for articles in magazines and newspapers about a certain topic. This is also the easiest way to look up articles in SCMP. Updated to the last few days. Access via HKUST Library website.
• Proquest Direct
  This is also one of the databases that the University Library subscribes to. Excellent resource if you are looking for articles in professional and popular magazines about a certain topic. Access via HKUST Library website.