Editing Speed reading (section)

== History ==
The term "speed reading" is thought to have been coined in the late 1950s by [[Evelyn Wood (teacher)|Evelyn Wood]], a schoolteacher. She was reportedly curious why some people were naturally faster at reading, so tried to force herself to read very quickly. In 1958, while brushing off the pages of a book she had thrown, she noticed that the sweeping motion of her hand across the page caught the attention of her eyes, and helped them move more smoothly across the page. She then used the hand as a pacer. Wood first taught the method at the [[University of Utah]], before launching it to the public as Evelyn Wood's Reading Dynamics in [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1959.<ref name=frank-everything>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z0wn1I3Q9SQC&pg=PA40 |title=Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program |first=Stanley D. |last=Frank |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1994 |page=40 |isbn=978-1-56619-402-0}}</ref>