DETAILED AND OUTLINE OF 1.SKIMMING AND SCANNING 2.NON VERBAL SIGNALS 3.STRUCTURE OF PARAGRAPHS 4.PUNCTUATION 5.AUTHOR'S VIEW POINT

1. TECHNIQUES FOR GOOD
COMPREHENSION-1
PRESENTATION BY:
V K VASUDEVA REDDY

2. CONTENT
• SKIMMING AND SCANNING
• NON-VERBAL SIGNALS
• STRUCTURE OF PARAGRAPHS
• PUNCTUATION
• AUTHOR’S VIEW POINT

3. SKIMMING AND SCANNING
• Reading techniques that use rapid eye movement and keywords to
move quickly through text for slightly different purposes.
• SKIMMING
• Skimming can save you hours of laborious reading.
• Overview your textbook chapters or to review for a test.
• Skimming tell you about general idea of the topic and it’s nature.
• It gives Bird’s view of the material.
• Example: Revision

4. • SCANNING
• Goal of scanning is to locate and swoop down on particular facts.
• Find keywords and figures/numbers and underline them.
• If scanning is to answer a particular question.The question itself
supplies us with keywords.
• Ignore irrelevant information.
• Examples: Telephone Directory,
Reading Newspaper, Examination.

6. NON-VERBAL SIGNALS
• It includes facial expressions, gestures, paralinguistics such as
loudness or tone of voice, body language.
• Action performed conveys better meaning.
• Best tool for enhancing the student performance
or colleague.
• Nonverbal communication can portray a message
both vocally and with the correct body signals or gestures.
• Also helps in public speaking and Seminars.

7. STRUCTURE OF PARAGRAPHS
• Written to convey message and straight forward.
• Paragraph usually have three(3) parts.
• Topic sentence - deals with the introductory part
of the paragraph.
• Body - speaks about the idea and purpose of the
paragraph.
• Concluding Sentence - conveys the summary or
connects the first paragraph with the next one.

8. PUNCTUATION
• Punctuation is essential, and is used to convey and
clarify the meaning of written language.
• There are two major styles of punctuation in
English: British or American.
• There are about 14 punctuation marks used in
English Language.
• Getting punctuation wrong can change the entire
meaning of a sentence.

10. AUTHOR’S VIEW POINT
• Author’s viewpoint is the way an author looks at a topic or the
ideas being described.
• Reader should get a question while reading."Why did the author
write this, or what was the reason this piece was written?“
• It helps us to get a idea about the topic
or paragraph written by the author.

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