English Reading Skills - Understand Writer's Purposes
Skimming is one of the compulsory reading strategies used to understand writer's purposes. Skimming is reading quickly throughout the paragraph to just understand general meaning of it. For reading news articles, skimming is fully required to find out the writer's point of view.
Skim the paragraphs below. Then, choose for or against.
For PDRC, there should be no sympathy for any of the men that will spend the next 5-7 years in prison. They delivered the country to the devil. They should be made to rot in jail.
- Is this writer for or against PDRC? The answer is against.
In this paragraph, we didn't have to read every words. We only had to read few key words: no sympathy, devil, rot. From those words we could tell that the writer is against PDRC.
For PDRC, they should have been called “Heroic Patriots” because they have fought against corruption and tyranny of the administration and have admitted the consequences of rallies.
- Is this writer for or against PDRC? The answer is for.
How do you know this? What are the key words? Tell your partner.
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