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Would you distinguish between scanning and skimming in one of the linguistic skills of English?

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Question ajoutée par Vinay Kumar Mancherla , Associate professor , Gnyana Saraswati College of Engineering & Technology
Date de publication: 2015/02/25
Mohamed Magdy Ahmed El Demerdash
par Mohamed Magdy Ahmed El Demerdash , Internal Auditor, Quality Assurance Department , Giza Cable Industries

Skimming refers to looking only for the general or main ideas. Scanning is another useful tool for speeding up your reading. Unlike skimming, when scanning, you look only for a specific fact or piece of information without reading everything.

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par Utilisateur supprimé

Skimming is picking up the main idea. scanning is a thorough reading for the gist

Dr Yasmeen Majeed
par Dr Yasmeen Majeed , Trainer and HOD

Skimming refers to reading of main idea from the text where as scanning is done when one has some questions in mind and reads the text only to find the answers.

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