Step 1. Predicting

Does the text contain the information you are looking for?

The purpose of this first reading phase is to determine whether you are going to spend more time on this text or not. You do this by looking at specific characteristics of the text and thus predict what the text is about without actually reading it. You try to form a picture of the content of the text and check whether it matches your reading goal. What is the overall content of the text and does it contain information that may match your purpose? You can usually determine this quite well on the basis of the characteristics and structure of a text, without reading the content!

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Not sure yet? Then dive deeper into the text with skimming to get an impression of the most important ideas in the text.