Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts

Friday, June 8, 2012

Reading strategies: scanning, skimming and intensive reading


You will probably be aware that you are already skilled in using different reading strategies for different purposes in your daily life. You may feel less confident about doing this in your academic studies: maybe you read everything too thoroughly. Or perhaps you have become too confident and have discovered from the feedback from your tutor or supervisor that you do not read key texts thoroughly enough. It is important to match your reading strategy to the reading purpose.
Consider whether you ever read for these purposes and what reading strategy you tend to use: