https://padlet.com/daniel9173/cb2jsueu7e28 Made with wonder en-us 2018-01-17 01:13:16 UTC 2025-09-27 10:22:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Drinkingmed.png daniel9173 https://padlet.com/daniel9173/cb2jsueu7e28/wish/221927242 Skim reading is a useful skill to learn when you are preparing for academic study. You are likely to have a lot of texts to read, a lot of research to do, and not enough time to read everything on a topic. It is therefor often important to decide whether it is worth reading a text in greater detail. You can do this by skimming a text quicky to identify the main ideas using headings, sub-headings, and topic sentences to help give you a bigger picture.]]> 2018-01-17 01:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel9173/cb2jsueu7e28/wish/221927242 daniel9173 https://padlet.com/daniel9173/cb2jsueu7e28/wish/221929657 Creating a text plan as you read can make it much easier to navigate a text. When you skim read, you are looking for the general meaning of the whole text and of individual paragraph the first time you read, and then decide  which paragraphs can be grouped together.]]> 2018-01-17 01:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel9173/cb2jsueu7e28/wish/221929657 daniel9173 https://padlet.com/daniel9173/cb2jsueu7e28/wish/221930021 Summarizing is giving a brief statement of the most important points of a text. As you read, highlight or underline the main points of the text, Then use the information to write a summary. Even when you are just writing a summary for your notes, you should use your own words to avoid potentially plagiarizing the text if you decide to use it in an assigment later.]]> 2018-01-17 01:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/daniel9173/cb2jsueu7e28/wish/221930021