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From: ccrbrian@ucdavis.UUCP (Brian Reilly)
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Subject: Re: Rereading
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 11:36:38 EDT
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> > One day you'll happen to pull a book off the shelf and scan through it
> > for something and maybe you won't really be paying attention and the
> > pages are just flipping past but a word or a sentence will flash in
> > your eye and you'll stop and stare and exclaim, 'What!?  I don't
> > remember anything like that!' And then you'll be hooked on rereading...
> 
> Doesn't "scan" mean to read very closely or intently?  Should "skim"
> have been used here?  Sorry, old pet peeve...
> -- 
> 					--rick heli
> 					(... ucbvax!ucdavis!groucho!ccrrick)

	When I was learning to teach a speed reading course, the
     differentiation between scanning and skimming was explained by
     using skimming when a specific word or phrase or idea was
     sought, and scanning when the "whole" thing was read.  However,
     reading in this case meant "speed reading," so scanning was
     a synonym for speed reading.  This choice seems arbitrary and
     few students ever really went along with it.

     The dictionary definition of scan is just what you indicate -
     to read closely.

					- Brian Reilly
					...ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!ccrbrian
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