SKIMMING AND SCANNING

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 SKIMMING AND SCANNING





Meaning of skimming and scanning

definition of skimming is a technique of reading at high speed in order to find important things or main ideas from a text. This reading technique is done by reading a passage quickly and at a glance in order to get an overall and general impression. The

Understanding scanning is a speed reading technique to get some information without reading other readings. usually scanning is used to look up phone numbers, look up words in dictionaries, look for entries in the index, look for statistics, look for television shows and look for travel lists.

Skimming and Scanning purposes:

Here are some of the purposes of someone speed reading or skimming.

• Identify reading topics.

• Know what people think.

• Knowing the organization of writing.

• Get the important parts that we need without reading the entire contents of the reading.

• Refresh what we've read.


Benefits of Skimming and Scanning:

Here are some of the benefits of skimming and scanning.

• Being able to find specific information needed from a reading text or book quickly and efficiently.

• Able to explore many pages of a book in a short time.

• Don't waste too much time looking for something you want from a book, especially actions that don't support the search for that information.


Skimming Reading Steps:

The steps for reading skimming are as follows.

• We first ask questions about what we are looking for in a book.

• The second step is to browse the table of contents or preface, whether the information we need exists or not.

• With full attention, browse at high speed each paragraph or subchapter of the reading.

• Stop if you have found what we are looking for in the reading.

• The last step is to read at normal speed, and understand well what we have found.


Steps to Read Scanning:

The steps involved in reading the scan are:

• Take a quick look at the table of contents and preface first.

• Read briefly the background of the book's writing.

• Then read the introduction briefly.

• Search the table of contents for important chapters.

• If yes, read the conclusion section.     

• View at a glance a bibliography, index list, or appendix


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