SKIMMING

PRESENTED TO:
MAAM SAMREEN
PRESENTED BY:
GROUP # 01
ABRAR HUSSAIN ROLL # 13544
WASEEM AKBAR ROLL # 13549
 WHAT IS SKIMMING??

Read quickly to get the general idea of what an article about and
to become familiar with the most important idea with in it .
 WHY SKIM?

• To read and understand faster.

• Know what kind of reading it is.
• Get the main idea fast, especially for long text.
• Quickly remember the main idea of something you read long time ago.
• To decide if the text is important or interesting for you to read.
 WHEN TO SKIM

• Amount to read is very large

• Less time
• Already know the material
 HOW TO SKIM TEXT

• To skim, move rapidly through the pages. You will not read every word; you
will pay special attention to graphics, headings, boldface and italic type,
indenting, bulleted and numbered lists.
• Use skimming to overview your textbook chapters or to review for a test. Use
skimming to decide if you need to read something at all, for example during
the preliminary research for a paper. Skimming can tell you enough about the
general idea and tone of the material, as well as its gross similarity or
difference from other sources, to know if you need to read it at all.
 READ VERTICALLY AS WELL AS
HORIZONTALLY

• When skimming, you move your eyes vertically as much as you

move your eyes horizontally. In other words, you move your eyes
down the page as much as you move them from side to side.
 KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

Before you start skimming, ask yourself what you want to get from
the book or article you want to skimm. Think of two or three terms
that describe what you want to know, and as you skim, keep an eye
out for those two or three terms.
Aimlessly skimming with no particular purpose can cause drowsiness,
and eventually, sleep.
 SKIMMING USEFUL FOR

• Pre-reading– skim the article before reading extensively, which may help you
to identifying that article is helpful for you or not. Whether it contain the
information which you required.
• Reviewing– skim is useful to review the article or a topic which we already
read.
• Reading– skimming is useful for reading the text whose detailed study is not
necessary.
 STEPS OF SKIMMING THE ARTICLE OR
NOVEL
• Read the title and fix it in your mind that about which topic you are going to skim.
• Read the subtitle and introduction.
• Read the first paragraph completely.
• Read the subheadings.
• Read the first sentence of each paragraph.
• Also read the highlighted, bold, and italic words or statement.
• Notice any picture, charts, or graphics.
• Read the last paragraph or summary.
 YOU SHOULD SLOW DOWN IN THE
FOLLOWING SITUATIONS

• When you skim introductory and concluding paragraphs

• When you skim topic sentences
• When you find an unfamiliar word
• When the material is very complicated
 SOME POINTS IN SKIMMING

• Concentrate on main the idea and keep high speed.

• Don’t read every word of the material.
• Pay attention to the key words and signal words.
• Summarize the topic sentences.
 EXAMPLES OF SKIMMING

• The newspaper – to quickly get the general news of the day.

• Magazines – to quickly discover which article you would like to read in more
details.
• Reading an article – for general overview.
 IMPORTANCE OF SKIMMING

• Its Save Time

• We get the Main Idea of text or article
• We get General Overview
• It speed up our reading rate upto1000 words a minute