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Skimming
Skimming:
• Quickly identify main ideas of a text
• Skimming is 3 to 4 times faster regular reading
• Used when there is a lot of material and a short amount of time
What skimming looks like:
• Let your eyes run along the page
• Chose what to read
• Fast reading to get the general idea of the text
• It might be what you do when you are on the internet
How to Skim:
• Keywords(Ignore details)
• Read the first and last paragraph
• Read headings, subheadings, titles, subtitles, and illustrations
• Read the first sentence of every paragraph
• Skimming works well with dates, names and places
How is 'skimming' different from 'scanning'?
The term skimming is often confused with scanning.
Remember:
Skimming is used, for example, to get the gist of a page of a textbook
to decide whether it is useful and should therefore be read more slowly
and in more detail.
Scanning is used to obtain specific information from a piece of text and
can be used, for example, to find a particular number in a telephone
directory.