2. • Most of us read regularly as part of our jobs, and to develop
our skills and knowledge.
•But do we ever read what should be a useful document, yet
fail to gain any helpful information from it?
3. What do you want to know?
•Before you start reading anything, ask yourself why you're
reading it. Are you reading with a purpose, or just for
pleasure? What do you want to know after you've read it?
•Ask yourself whether the resource meets your needs, and
try to work out if it will give you the right amount of
knowledge. If you think that the resource isn't ideal, don't
waste time reading it.
4. How to Study the Material
•If you need a moderate level of information on a
subject, then you can scan the text. This is when you read
the chapter introductions and summaries in detail. You can
then speed read the contents of the chapters, picking out
and understanding key words and concepts.
•Only when you need full knowledge of a subject is it
worth studying the text in detail.
5. So we have to distinguish three modes of reading:
Skimming ,Scanning and Intensive
reading
Depending on the purpose of their reading, readers choose
between either of three modes of reading..
6. Skimming
It’s a mode of fast reading which is used to get a fast
general impression of what a text is about.
You may look through the text and focus attention on
subtitles, headlines, content keywords, or prominent text
features
Writers often use such features to highlight what they
want to say.
7. Scanning
It’s a mode of fast reading which you use if you start with a
predefined set of keywords and want to find out if a given text
provides information on them.
You look through the text and search for passages which
contain your keywords.
8. Intensive reading
It’s a mode of reading in which readers focus on a
fairly comprehensive understanding of a given text
the readers take a text, study it line by line, and refer at very
moment to the dictionary about the grammar of the text
itself.
