A student reads through an article in a newspaper to get the overall idea of…

2019

A student reads through an article in a newspaper to get the overall idea of the article. What is this (practice) known as?

  1. A.

    Scanning

  2. B.

    Skimming

  3. C.

    Top-down model

  4. D.

    Bottom-up model

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Correct answer: B

Reading a text quickly to understand its overall idea is skimming.

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