Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucdavis.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!ccrbrian From: ccrbrian@ucdavis.UUCP (Brian Reilly) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Rereading Message-ID: <350@ucdavis.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 11:36:38 EDT Article-I.D.: ucdavis.350 Posted: Wed Jul 10 11:36:38 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 01:00:13 EDT References: <120@aplvax.UUCP> <1502@utah-gr.UUCP> <348@ucdavis.UUCP> Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 29 > > 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 -- ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Brian Reilly Davis, CA 95616 U.C. Davis Computer Center ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb!ccrbrian