Questão
ID 170004Disciplina: Língua Inglesa
Assunto: Estratégias de Leitura (Skimming e Scanning) | Reading Strategies (Skimming And Scanning)
Ano: 2019 Banca: IBADE - Instituto Brasileiro de Apoio e Desenvolvimento Executivo Órgão: Secretaria de Estado de Educação e Cultura do Acre
What is reading for gist?
Gist is the overall meaning, the core idea, the main idea of a spoken or written discourse. When we take a quick look at a written text to establish its genre and the main message that its writer means to get across, we're reading for gist.
A text can provide readers with lots of clues that help readers quickly establish what it's all about. These needn't be just the words. A quick glance at the arrangement – densely written columns, for example – can tell us that we're looking at a newspaper article, even when it's been reproduced in an exam paper. This texts explains what reading for gist is.
This reading strategy is also known as: