Tugas 2 : Skimming and Scanning Reading Strategy

Name : Ferbawanti. S (09250018)

Skimming and Scanning For Better Speed Reading

A big element of effective speed-reading is only reading those pieces of text that you actually need to read and not reading that which you don't need to read.

To help you find the information you actually need to read and to avoid the information you don't need to read it is important to practice skimming and scanning when reading text.

Skimming and scanning are actually two very different ways of going through text. Scanning while speed reading is the process of looking for a specific piece of information, like looking up a word in the dictionary for example. You don't read every word; you "scan" through the text to look for what you want and stop once you have found and absorbed the information you are looking for.

Skimming on the other hand involves going through the book page by page just looking at chapter titles and sub titles and categories and pictures and diagrams to get a general feel for the text and its layout to familiarize yourself with its structure. And to also help get an overview of the subject matter the book is on. And to get a general impression of what the text contains.

To help you be more effective and get the most out of both skimming and scanning text it can be useful to know what your purpose is for reading the book. Knowing why you are reading a book and what you are looking for will help to get your brain alert for any information that your are looking for in the text as you read.

References : Mc, Dan. (April 25, 2009). Speed Reading : Skimming and Scanning For Better Speed Reading. Retrieved April 12, 2012 from: (http://ezinearticles.com/?Skimming-and-Scanning-For-Better-Speed-Reading&id=2252181)

From the passages above, I tried to conclude that :

1.      Skimming is used to quickly identify the main ideas of the text in a limited amount of time.

2.      Scanning is a process of looking for a specific piece of information.