Comments on: How Do You Capture Skim Readers?

By: Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:13:50 +0000

Richard Jones : well it sure worked with you, didn’t it?
I haven’t yet learned how to edit posts here after publishing them. I noticed a spelling mistake - which evidently you didn’t.

By: Richard Jones

Richard Jones — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:03:47 +0000

Richard Morgan, if you don’t get their attention the first time, post again?

By: Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:11:59 +0000

Capturing a skim reader should only be the means to tranforming him into a serious reader.
As long as he’s skimming, he’s not learning.

He skims, and reacts with his preconceived ideas.
When he slows down and allows the ideas to enter his mind, he is saying, “I am prepared to learn something that I did not know before.”
In other words, a captured skim reader is no longer a skim reader.
Skimming implies - “I already know.”
Reading implies - “I’m ready to learn.”

By: Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:10:43 +0000

Capturing a skim reader should only be the means to tranforming him into a serious reader.
As long as he’s skimming, he’s not learning.

He skims, and reacts with his preconceived ideas.
When he slows down and allows the ideas to enter his mind, he is saying, “I am prepared to learn something that I did not know before.”
In other words, a capturesd skim reader is no longer a skim reader.
Skimming implies - “I already know.”
Reading implies - “I’m ready to learn.”

By: Kate Headen

Kate Headen — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:58:16 +0000

As you have demonstrated (but not stated explicitly) interspersing short paragraphs and bulleted lists are quite effective for capturing skimmers as well.