SKIMMING AND SCANNING

SKIMMING :

Skimming is a way that is used to identification of ideas in a reading quickly. Suppose that while reading a story or essay, with a wish to know quickly what the core or the main idea of the story that we read it from a common part of the story and the fist or the end of the paragraph. This technique is useful when we are looking for specific information rather than reading for comprehension Some situations require the use of skimming are:
1. check out a chapter in the book prior to study them seriously in order to obtain ageneral idea of ​​the scope of the chapter.
2. menyampel karyua few pages of a novel or write other types to determine whether the paper is worth reading.
3. quickly check an article about a controversial issue to find the author's view,regardless of the specific author's arguments.
4. examine the literature to assess whether the text contains the type of informationwe're looking for.
5. examined the literature to determine whether the text can be understood or is toodifficult

SCANNING:

Scanning is a fast reading techniques are often used when searching for an address or phone number and also the vocabulary contained in the dictionary. In scanning makes our eyes work faster because to find words or phrases that we seek. During the move the eye quickly see the overall reading material, the reader does not absorb the meaning but simply to recognize that things are looking, it seemed as clear as if in bold. Some people can reach speeds of almost incredible that in doing the scanning.

In the daily life of another scanning used for:
A. search for phone numbers
2. search for words in a dictionary
3. looking for entries in the index
4. looking for statistics
5. look for television show
6. seek list of journey