#Skimming scanning how to#

If there is no sub-heading, read the first line or first few lines of the text.

It will give a basic idea about the text and what’s in it.

Then read the sub-headings (if any) of the text.If the title does not interest you, you will probably skip it at once.

Generally, titles will give you the most important idea of the text.

To go through the options after searching something on Google.

To see through a catalog to choose an offer.

To look through the television guide/program schedule to plan your evening.

To look through a text to decide whether you want to read it or not.

To see what is in the news on a website or on a paper.

#Skimming scanning how to#

Skimming will also save a great amount of your valuable time if you know how to skim a text efficiently. 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 is the act of glancing through a text for gathering a basic idea about that text. Skimming is the other technique of fast reading. 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. Scanning a random unknown page of a text is difficult.In that case, you have to guess a section and scan it through to get your information. However, some texts are not arranged at all. It can be arranged either alphabetically or numerically. Notice how the information is arranged.This will help you to guess the section or part of the text where you might find the information you need.

If the text is completely unknown to you, you should skim it first to get some ideas about that text. You will not be able to scan a text efficiently if you do not have a basic idea about that text. Before starting to scan a text for a particular information, you know some basic things about that text.To know a particular information from a text.To check the price of a specific item in a catalog.To check the time schedule of a program in an agenda.To find a phone number or an address in a directory.To search for a word in a dictionary or index.This process of searching is called scanning. 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. Scanning is the act of searching a particular information in a text with a particular approach. Moreover, these two reading techniques will save a great amount of your valuable time. 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.