![]() ![]() (by kaboompics via )Īnother reason for you to practice your skimming and scanning skills is to increase your IELTS Reading score. The skill also helps identify specific data and figures. When it comes to researching, scanning helps us find which section of the references should be used. Reading all of the texts takes a long time, and scanning can help reduce such time. Finding one or several ingredients in products while shopping, in case you have allergies.Getting information of time and place of the meeting in a business letter.Looking up phone numbers in the phone book.It serves looking for specific information, for example: Speaking of scanning, scanning is also helpful for increasing reading speed. Scanning skill is useful for finding specific information After all, it is hard to look at one sentence and know what the right answer is without the context of the essay. It also helps us scan for the correct information and find the correct answer. Therefore, it helps us decide which parts we should read for more details. Skimming allows us to have a general idea of what we are reading. It also helps us understand the quality of the piece of writing and still manage to use the time sensibly. With this skill, we can locate what we are looking for. With so many sources, however, as we have so little time, we need to know what to read as quickly as possible. We research in the library to get a better grasp of whatever we are interested in.We consume news to know what is going on in the world.Reading to acquire knowledge is a very familiar activity in our lives. Skimming skill can help you read a passage quickly to get its main idea Why you should practice skimming and scanning, and when to use them 1. Also, when a task requires scanning, often you need to pay more attention to word use. Unlike skimming used to identify the main idea, scanning is only used to search for small details. You do so to look for particular information, details, or specific words. ![]() Usually, when you scan a paragraph, you read the texts quickly. While also a skill to serve speed reading, scanning is entirely different. Sometimes, you can also indicate the attitude of the author towards the mentioned topic. In some cases, you can even find the conclusion the paragraph heads towards. Doing this, you can identify keywords, determine the points of each paragraph. You read quickly through the text instead of reading the entire essay word by word. When you skim through a passage, you only read the essay’s title, the topic sentence, concluding sentences and keywords. Skimming is the skill you use to get the general idea as well as the main focus of the essay or the paragraph. So what is skimming, and what is scanning? Moreover, skimming and scanning can also helps you to get higher IELTS score. And you can be better at it by mastering skimming and scanning skills. Therefore, to work on this section in an efficient way, you need to be good at speed reading. This can be a major obstacle to completing the reading section of English language tests. Acquiring information from long passages can take quite a long time. ![]()
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