Reading: Skimming and scanning

Male with gray hair, wearing, wearing black jacket: Skiming reading is a skill that you've got to learn.

Male wearing glasses and blue shirt: You're reading a complex report or a document, or even some of the [Indistinct] and procedure, they can be quite wordy and quite large.

So, I skim read; I'm just glancing over until we find the subject matter that we want, then we'll sit down and then we'll pick the pieces out we actually need.

Male wearing glasses and pale blue shirt: I tend to, sort of, use speed reading to, sort of, judge relevance really; do I need to look at this document in depth?

Can I get enough information from what I've seen, to achieve what I need to achieve?

Not all documents that I receive I need to read in great depth.

Male working in bus garage: We use scanning quite a lot in the trade because you've done so many jobs, you've got all the hard work out of the way, but there's still jobs on the sheet, maybe half way up the sheet, what you've passed…

So, you'll come from your bus to the sheet, scan through it really quick and then come back, see the job that you've missed, and then you'll start work on that one.