Skimming and Scanning.

SKIMMING:

-> Method of rapidly moving the eyes over text with the purpose of getting only the main ideas and a general overview of the content. Is useful in three different situations:

a) Pre-Reading
b) Reviewing
c) Reading


SCANNING:

-> Rapidly covers a great deal of material in order to locate a specific fact or piece of information.
Scanning is very useful for finding a specific name, date, statistic or fact without reading the entire article

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