Technical Reading Skills

Technical Reading is

• is a strategy you can use to obtain a great amount of information in a short time

• reading a lot of boring texts

• only reading manuals

• none of these

Which of the following are part of the surveying process for technical reading?

• summarizing

• writing down key words or vocabulary

• scribing headers and sub-headers

• all of the above

How many sentences should you write down from each paragraph according to the technical reading method?

• all of them

• two

• three

• one

What should you do after you create questions based on your notes?

• review them

• delete them

• answer them

• I'm supposed to create questions?

Name any of the technical reading sources we read.

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Read and then write down the most important sentence from the paragraph below.

Borrowing and Lending Borrowers and lenders of motorcycles, beware. Crashes are fairly common among beginning riders — especially in the first months of riding. Riding an unfamiliar motorcycle adds to the problem. If you borrow a motorcycle, get familiar with it in a controlled area. And if you lend your motorcycle to friends, make sure they are licensed and know how to ride before allowing them out into traffic.

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Look at the diagram and then create an original question based on what you see.

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All of the following are examples of technical reading except for

• manuals

• textbooks

• Fiction novel

• programming guide

Using the words Tenant, Landlord, and Lease, create an original sentence to describe the relationship between these words.

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What kinds of school subjects require technical reading?

• physical science

• engineering

• computer science

• all of the above