The document discusses scanning techniques. It defines scanning as examining an area carefully but quickly, often to look for a particular person or thing. It then provides tips for how to scan effectively, such as scanning the margins and zigzagging the eyes across a page. The goal of scanning is to absorb essential information from a document in an efficient manner.
3. What is scanning?
To examine an area carefully but quickly
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016
4. What is scanning?
To examine an area carefully but quickly
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016
5. What is scanning?
To examine an area carefully but quickly, often because you are
looking for a particular person or thing.
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016
6. What is scanning?
To examine an area carefully but quickly, often because you are
looking for a particular person or thing.
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016
7. How to Do it Well
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016
8. How to Do it Well
Scanning:
Margins
• There has always been an interest in geniuses and
prodigies. The word ‘genius’, from the Latin gens
(=family) and the term ‘genius’, meaning ‘begetter’,
comes from the early Roman cult of a divinity as
the head of the family. In its earliest form, genius
was concerned with the ability of the head of the
family, the paterfamilias, to perpetuate individual’s
highest attributes derived from his ‘genius’ or
guiding spirits. Today, people still look to stars of
genes, astrology or genetics, in the hope of finding
the source of exceptional abilities or personal
characteristics.
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016
9. How to Do it Well
Scanning:
Margins
• There has always been an interest in geniuses and
prodigies. The word ‘genius’, from the Latin gens
(=family) and the term ‘genius’, meaning ‘begetter’,
comes from the early Roman cult of a divinity as
the head of the family. In its earliest form, genius
was concerned with the ability of the head of the
family, the paterfamilias, to perpetuate individual’s
highest attributes derived from his ‘genius’ or
guiding spirits. Today, people still look to stars of
genes, astrology or genetics, in the hope of finding
the source of exceptional abilities or personal
characteristics.
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016
10. How to Do it Well
Scanning:
Margins
• There has always been an interest in geniuses and
prodigies. The word ‘genius’, from the Latin gens
(=family) and the term ‘genius’, meaning ‘begetter’,
comes from the early Roman cult of a divinity as
the head of the family. In its earliest form, genius
was concerned with the ability of the head of the
family, the paterfamilias, to perpetuate individual’s
highest attributes derived from his ‘genius’ or
guiding spirits. Today, people still look to stars of
genes, astrology or genetics, in the hope of finding
the source of exceptional abilities or personal
characteristics.
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016
11. How to Do it Well
Scanning:
Zigzagging
• There has always been an interest in geniuses and
prodigies. The word ‘genius’, from the Latin gens
(=family) and the term ‘genius’, meaning ‘begetter’,
comes from the early Roman cult of a divinity as
the head of the family. In its earliest form, genius
was concerned with the ability of the head of the
family, the paterfamilias, to perpetuate individual’s
highest attributes derived from his ‘genius’ or
guiding spirits. Today, people still look to stars of
genes, astrology or genetics, in the hope of finding
the source of exceptional abilities or personal
characteristics.
Mohammad Golpayegani – Scanning Techniques – October 2016