PMAS Arid Agriculture University RWP.

Group Members

Zain-ul-Abideen 15-Arid-3589

Sheheryar Khalid 15-Arid-3584

Presentation Topic

Skimming and Scanning

Reading TechniquesO Skimming

O Scanning

Skimming

What is Skimming?“To read quickly to

get the general idea of a passage”

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How to SKIM ?Read the title.

Read the subtitle or introduction.

Read the first sentences of each paragraph.

Notice any picture, charts, or graphics.

Read the summary or last paragraph if there is one.

When to skimO Amount to read is very large

O Less time

O Already know the material

Not stopping

First and Last

paragraph

Topic sentences

Read fast

Getting The Gist

AdvantagesO Save TimeO Main IdeaO General OverviewO Get More interestedO 1000 words a minute

DisadvantagesO Not Enough to pass the examsO Do not tell all detailsO Go back, read the entire passage,

understand

SCANNINGSearch for specific information

( key words )

Particular NameTelephone NumberDate The Cosine “32°”

Program

Number

Scanning Gets only what you need.

• Scanning is rapidly running your eyes over the text in order to locate specific details.

search for key words

move quickly over

the page

Less reading and

more searching

While scanning look atO Table of contentsO Title pageO IndexO Clue

As for the benefits, among others:

can search for a specific information needed from a text reading or books quickly and efficiently.1.

can explore the many pages of the book in a short time.2.

not too much of a waste of time looking for specific information of the book.3.

ConclusionO Skimming and scanning is used when

reading all types of documents. O We skim to get the idea of what a

document is about and typically skim all documents before we actually begin to read.

As we skim, we… think about the topic think about what we already know about the

topic start to guess the details we are going to

read about.

Conclusion (cont…)

O We scan for specific information

O We work quickly when we skim and scan.

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