Talk:Skimming (reading)

Skimming v's Scanning
On a language teaching course a few years ago I was taught a distinction between 'scanning' and 'skimming'. What is described in the first paragraph here is scanning - looking through a text for information, in no particular order (for example, looking over an physics article to find out if it mentions the big bang theory). Skimming is a form of speed reading, reading a text in the conventional order, but doing so very quickly and not focussing on all the details, skipping some words and sections etc (for me this is how I read a newspaper article). I'm not sure what the correct terminology is, but these for me are clearly two separate processes. Lord Spring Onion (talk) 17:49, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Other views on skimming
Skimming has been seen in not so good a light in the UK: skimming

Hence such a view would balance what is already written on the page. I propose to add some text along these lines --Михал Орела 14:28, 6 September 2008 (UTC)