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    The document discusses two useful reading strategies: scanning and skimming. Scanning involves searching for a specific piece of information in a text, such as looking up a word in a dictionary. Skimming involves glancing through a text quickly to get the general idea without reading every detail. Both techniques can save time when reading. The document provides steps for how to scan, such as noticing text organization, and how to skim, such as reading the title, subheadings, and first lines of paragraphs.

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    The document discusses two useful reading strategies: scanning and skimming. Scanning involves searching for a specific piece of information in a text, such as looking up a word in a dictionary. Skimming involves glancing through a text quickly to get the general idea without reading every detail. Both techniques can save time when reading. The document provides steps for how to scan, such as noticing text organization, and how to skim, such as reading the title, subheadings, and first lines of paragraphs.

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    The document discusses two useful reading strategies: scanning and skimming. Scanning involves searching for a specific piece of information in a text, such as looking up a word in a dictionary. Skimming involves glancing through a text quickly to get the general idea without reading every detail. Both techniques can save time when reading. The document provides steps for how to scan, such as noticing text organization, and how to skim, such as reading the title, subheadings, and first lines of paragraphs.

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    Scanning & Skimming: Two Useful Reading Strategies

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    Course Title: Composition and Communication Skills

    Course Code: ENG-301

    Course Credits: 3(3-0) Theory: 3 Lab: 0 Total: 03

    Program: BSc. (Hons) Agriculture Sciences

    Department: Humanities & Linguistics

    Instructor: Prof: Mubashar Ali

    _____________________________________________________________________________________

    LECTURE NO: 10 Skimming and Scanning

    Scanning & Skimming: Two Useful Reading Strategies


    If you know how to skim and scan when you are reading, you won’t have to read
    everything thoroughly and you will be able to take some pressure off your brain.
    Moreover, these two reading techniques will save a great amount of your valuable
    time.
    Scanning
    Scanning is the act of searching a particular information in a text with a particular
    approach. For instance, if you want to know the meaning of the word ‘virtuous’
    from a dictionary, you will start searching the letter V first, then I, and then R; by
    then you probably will have found the word. This process of searching is
    called scanning. It is a technique of fast reading.
    Purposes of Scanning
    o To search for a word in a dictionary or index
    o To find a phone number or an address in a directory
    o To check the time schedule of a program in an agenda
    o To check the price of a specific item in a catalog
    o To know a particular information from a text
    Scanning: Steps to Follow
    o Before starting to scan a text for a particular information, you know some
    basic things about that text. You will not be able to scan a text efficiently if
    you do not have a basic idea about that text. If the text is completely
    unknown to you, you should skim it first to get some ideas about that text.
    This will help you to guess the section or part of the text where you might
    find the information you need.
    o Notice how the information is arranged. It can be arranged either
    alphabetically or numerically. However, some texts are not arranged at all.
    In that case, you have to guess a section and scan it through to get your
    information.
    o Scanning a random unknown page of a text is difficult. It may take more
    time than the usual. However, it won’t take too much time if you move your
    eyes vertically and diagonally keeping in mind the exact letters or numbers
    you are looking for.
     
    Skimming
    Skimming is the other technique of fast reading. Skimming is the act of glancing
    through a text for gathering a basic idea about that text. For instance, if you want to
    read an interesting article on the newspaper and you do not have enough time to
    read more than one article, you will skim through most of the article to decide
    exactly which article you want to read. Skimming will also save a great amount of
    your valuable time if you know how to skim a text efficiently. 
     Purposes of Skimming
    o To see what is in the news on a website or on a paper
    o To look through a text to decide whether you want to read it or not
    o To look through the television guide/program schedule to plan your evening
    o To see through a catalog to choose an offer
    o To go through the options after searching something on Google
    o And many more
    Skimming: Steps to Follow
    o Read the title first. Generally, titles will give you the most important idea of
    the text. If the title does not interest you, you will probably skip it at once.
    o Then read the sub-headings (if any) of the text. It will give a basic idea about
    the text and what’s in it.
    o If there is no sub-heading, read the first line or first few lines of the text. It
    will give you the gist of the text.
    o If you want to skim it further, you may read the first lines of all the
    paragraphs and focus on the emphasized (bolded & italicized) words in
    them to get more ideas about the text.

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