CTIONР4 main aspects of academic reading ?Reading for a specific academic purpose ?Working on specific strategies that are associated with effective and essful reading; ?prehension of sentences and paragraphs; ?Text analysis;РStrategies-TechniquesРSkimming ?Predicting?Scanning?Search reading ?Identifying the main ideas ?Careful reading ?Inferring ?Dealing with unfamiliar wordsРSkimmingРReading quickly and selectively for the main ideas (reading for gist)РTypically, most of the text is ignored.РScanningРReading quickly and selectively to locate words, or other symbols, such as figures. РTypically, almost all of the text is ignored. РThe process involves finding an exact match between what the reader is looking for and is in the text.РSearch readingРDifferent from Scanning; Рan inexact match