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Skimming Scanning And Detailed Reading #MondayMusings

August 17, 2015 By corinnerodrigues 4 Comments

You might recall we had an excellent series on Write Tribe on how to write a book review by Claire McAlpine. If you haven’t read the posts before, I would urge you to read them today:

How To Write a Book Review and Why Anyone Can Do It

Part – 1

Part – 2

Part -3

While re-reading those posts, I thought I’d do a short one on the different methods of reading. This is useful information for anyone, but especially for writers who must first of all be readers!

Skimming Scanning And Detailed Reading

Skimming

Skimming means:

· Looking at: the beginnings or ends of paragraphs, sentences, words or headings to give you a general idea about what you are reading.
· reading something quickly
· not reading every word
· not using a dictionary

What kind of text do you skim read?
· leaflets
· newspaper articles
· posters

Scanning

Scanning means:

· Looking at: sentences, words, headings or numbers to find important information.
· reading something quickly
· not reading every word
· not using a dictionary

What kind of text do you scan?
· a telephone book
· an instruction booklet
· a newspaper article leaflet or poster for information like a date, a time or about important events

Detailed reading

Detailed reading means:
· Reading the text carefully because you want to understand everything.
· using a dictionary

What kind of text do you read in detail?
· a letter from the bank
· a recipe
· instructions

Now I have a question for you? When reading a story book what method of reading do you use? Skimming scanning or detailed reading? I’d love to hear what you have to say!

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It is time for #MondayMusings and all you have to do is:

  • Write a post sharing your thoughts on a subject of your choice. Make it as personal as possible.
  • Use the hashtag #MondayMusings and link to this post.
  • Add your link to the linky which you will find either here and on the post of a co-host.
  • Use our #MondayMusings badge to help other bloggers join in too.

#MondayMusings

Every Monday, another blogger will be co-hosting with me. If you’d like to be that blogger, let me know either in the comments or by using the contact form. I’ll let you know the date and provide you with the code.

Today’s linky can be found here below and my co-host is Shilpa Garg. 

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About corinnerodrigues

A lover of words. A self-acceptance blogger. A blogging coach. A book reviewer. A woman happily journeying through midlife, moving from self-improvement to self-acceptance and enjoying being herself.
Corinne writes at Everyday Gyaan, reviews fiction at CorinneRodrigues.com and encourages writers and bloggers at Write Tribe and offers offline coaching to writers and bloggers at The Frangipani Creative, located in Secunderabad, India.

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