Question

Jayden read an article about Pablo Picasso for a research report. He needs to locate the name of a painting in the article. Would Jayden use skimming or scanning to find the name of the painting? Why is this reading rate appropriate?

Answer 1

Answer: scanning

Explanation:

Jayden should use scanning to find the name of the painting.

While skimming aims to get a general idea of a text by reading rapidly, scanning refers to reading rapidly to find specific information. Although both reading techniques involve rapid reading, they are quite different. The first one requires retaining as much information as possible while rapidly reading to make connections that allow a general idea of the text.  Whereas scanning only requires looking for a specific piece of data, so there´s no need to retain other information, but requires much more attention to detail.