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Skimming is a high speed reading (activity) process and involves visually searching the sentences of a page for meaning or clues to meaning. It is conducted at a higher rate than normal reading speeds rauding, and results in severely lower comprehension rates, especially with information rich reading material. Skimming is considered by reading experts to be hazardous, and should only be used when comprehension is not an important objective.
Speed reading largely involves skimming a text, and also results in a low comprehension rate.
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