2.READING AND WRITING

 

2.READING AND WRITING

1.a STRATEGIES OF READING: SKIMMING AND SCANNING

•             Skimming and Scanning are useful skills of reading.

•             It helps us to read effectively and precisely.

•             Readers skim through description and focus on the passage which is more relevant to the assignment or a term paper.

•             The required information will then be read intensively.

•             skimming gives an overall grasp of the text and to gather the required information

Skimming Methods

When you are reading using the skimming skills you will mainly use the following

• Titles, subtitles or the headlines

• Contents

• Introduction

• Synopsis

Chapter beginnings

• Paragraph

• Bold/Italicised words

• Review questions

• Conclusion

This strategy of skimming will be useful to write a term paper.

SCANNING

•             A reading skill to gather a specific piece of information in a text.

•             Reader discards a lot of unwanted information

•             In skimming an entire text is read fast to get the general information of the text, in scanning the text is used to extract a specific information.

1.            TYPES OF READING: EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE READING

1.Extensive Reading

•             Extensive reading is “reading for pleasure”.

•             Book lovers involve in extensive reading.

•             The practice of extensive reading is known to improve fluency.

•             It helps learning English as a second language.

2.Intensive Reading

•             Intensive Reading happens when a reader reads a text, carefully and deeply.

•             Gather specific information.

•             Effective tool to learn grammar from a short text or a poem.

•             Clear competitive exams.

•             Ability to grasp ideas and ability for logical thinking and reasoning.

•             A researcher does intensive learning.