SCANNING

1.      DEFINITION OF SCANNING

Scanning is a fast reading technique. It's a way of reading to look for specific information in a text. Scanning can be used to look up a phone number, read through the small advertisements in a newspaper, or for browsing TV schedules, tables, lists, entries or article . For these tasks you don't need to read or understand every word.

Here are some tips to help you with your scanning :

1.      Don't try to read every word.

2.      Let your eyes move quickly across the page until you find what you are looking for or find the key words then look for the definitions.

3.      Use clues on the page, such as headings and titles, to help you.

4.      Look for highlighted words, like words in bold or italic, numbers, date, and so on.

5.      If you are ready for study, start by thinking up or writing down some questions that you want to answer. Doing this can focus your mind and help you find the facts or information that you need more easily.

Purpose of scanning :

1.      Look for some information quickly.

2.      More effective times.

3.      Get a specisif information from a text.

The most difficult part of scanning is if we read all the paragraph so we spend too much times.

2.      KIND OF SCANNING

1.      Scanning Table

Scanning table is fast reading technique to look for specisif information in a table

Example: when we look for the total of population we must focus on the highest and shortest number.

Numb	Years	Total of population
1	2009	231.000.000
2	2010	234.200.000
3	2011	241.000.000
4	2012	255.000.000

From the table we can know that in 2009 the total of population is the shortest and in 2012 the total of population is the highest.

2.      Scanning Listing

Scanning listing is a fast reading technique to look for specific information in a list. In this part, we give you an example of the list of birth date some people.

Example: If we want to know about Zahara’s birthday we must focus on the alphabet “Z”. Don’t try to see another alphabet, just see for “Z”. Look at the example !

Numb	Name	Date of Birth
1	Ana Jonson	21 January 2000
2	Annabele Swan	09 March 1999
3	Benn Cosmo	15 February 2002
4	Bonnie Houston	06 Oktober 2001
5	Caroline Forbs	12 Desember 2003
6	Cellin Drake	11 April 2001
7	Damon Salvatore	03 July 1998
8	Draco Malfoy	23 June 2012
9	Elena Gilbert	30 August 1994
10	Elisabeth Swan	12 April 1995
11	Fransiscus Jason	17 May 1992
12	Frisca Pratista	09 September 2001
13	Greyson Chance	16 October 2003
14	George Bush	23 December 2005
15	Hasan Sunarto	27 January 2009
16	Hanny Munawaroh	12 June 2007
17	Isnaini Azizah	03 March 1996
18	Ipeh Susanti	14 July 2009
19	Zahara	29 May 1998
20	Zinedin Zidane	29 October 2012

3.      Scanning Articles

Scanning articles  is a fast reading technique to look for specific information in an article. In this part, we give you an article to read, so read the article with the scanning technique.

Example: Read the text !

Every second, one hectare of the world's rainforest is destroyed. That's equivalent to two football fields. An area the size of New York City is lost every day. In a year, that adds up to 31 million hectares -- more than the land area of Poland. This alarming rate of destruction has serious consequences for the environment; scientists estimate, for example, that 137 species of plant, insect or animal become extinct every day due to logging. In British Columbia, where, since 1990, thirteen rainforest valleys have been clearcut, 142 species of salmon have already become extinct, and the habitats of grizzly bears, wolves and many other creatures are threatened. Logging, however, provides jobs, profits, taxes for the govenment and cheap products of all kinds for consumers, so the government is reluctant to restrict or control it.

ü  If we want to find what animal that extinct we must focus on the name of animals in a text.

ü  If we want to know how many spices of plant that extinct we must focus to the number.

ü  If we want to know about the places we must focus to the name of places.

EXERCISE

1.      MEMO

To : All employees
From : Ronny S.H.
Director, Personel

Date : August 23, 2012
Subject : Charitable Leave

The corporation is pleased to announce a new policy which will allow employees to take paid time off for volunteer activities. Employees may take up to eight hours of paid leave per month to volunteer for charity organizations. Employees are eligible for this programs if they are full-time and have been employed here for at least one year. Charitable leave must be requested in advance; otherwise, employees will not be paid for that time. Charitable leave must also be approved by the employee's supervisor.

QUESTION:

1.      How many hours does the employees to take paid time for volunteer activities?

2.      What is the eligible to be a volunteer activist?

2.      David Banister

 

David Banister is Professor of Transport Studies at the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE), University of Oxford. Since 2009 he has also been the Acting Director of the Environmental Change Institute in SoGE. Before he joined SoGE, he was Professor of Transport Planning at University College, London. He has also been Research Fellow at the Warren Centre in the University of Sydney (2001-2002) on the Sustainable Transport for a Sustainable City project.  Over the past 20 years he has built up an international reputation as one of the leading UK researchers in transport and planning analysis. His research interests include: transport investment decisions and economic development, policy scenarios for sustainable mobility, transport and sustainable development – reducing the need to travel, transport planning methods and their application to policy decisions, and modelling of energy and emissions from transport modes in urban areas and regions. He is editor of Transport Reviews and Built Environment and on the editorial board of a further 6 key international transport journals. He has authored and edited 19 books that summaries  his own research and some of the international projects that he has been involved with. He has also authored (or co-authored) more than 150 papers in international refereed journals, together with a similar number of other papers in journals or as contributions to books.

1.      Who is Mr David Banister?

2.      How many papers has he written?

3.      Before him at Oxford University where he taught?

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4.      Table of selling car.

Brands	2011		2010
	Unit	Persen	Unit	Persen
Toyota	267.707	36,2%	234.294	37,5%
Daihatsu	113.446	15,2%	93.198	14,9%
Mitsubishi	109.067	14,6%	87.750	14,0%
Suzuki	77.507	10,4%	58.041	9,3%
Nissan	44.016	5,9%	30.229	4,8%
Honda	40.318	5,4%	50.428	8,1%
Isuzu	23.815	3,2%	19.782	3,2%
Mazda	7.439	1,0%	4.896	0,8%
Lainnya	60.284	8,1%	46..782	7,5%
Total	745.599	100,0%	625.400	100,0%

1.      What kind of car is  the best selling in 2010?

2.      What kind of car is the worst selling in 2011?