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College English Reading Course Book III Unit One Reading Skills:Getting the Main Ideas --- Skimming What is skimming? To skim milk, you take the cream, the richest part, off the top of the bottle. To skim reading material, you extract the important parts --- that is, the main part and the significant details; but you have to extract these where you find them, which are not necessarily at the top. Skimming, then, is getting the essence of material without reading all of it. Difference between skimming and normal reading: While skimming leaves out some parts of the reading matter, the reader would usually omit no part at all in normal reading. Difference between skimming and scanning: Skimming differs from scanning in that it is an effort to get general information rather than specific facts. How fast a skimming speed should be? It may be difficult to say exactly, but our practical experience is that skimming speed should be twice as fast as the normal reading speed or better. Three skimming methods --- preview, overview and review, each with its own special uses and techniques. 1. Preview Skimming Preview skimming involves dealing with the material before it is read. The purpose is to find out what the material is about, what kind of facts are presented, how it is organized, and what approach will be most effective if it is to be studied later. 2. Overview Skimming Overview skimming is the type of skimming to be used when you have a lot of material to read and dont have time to read it all. In this form of skimming, you are trying to get as much information as you can in one exposure. You are interested in getting the main idea and the significant facts rather than discovering the organization and the style. 3. Review Skimming Review skimming is done on material that has already been read. The purpose is usually to refresh your memory. Often the reason is to p