Browse in articles (that is, skimming, skimming) process, the judgment on the importance of information in the article helps the reader quickly and effectively understand the gist of the paragraph. In the course of browsing, readers can look for "signal word" to distinguish between important and non-important information. Listed below are common in the course of reading categories "signal word".
1. Following phrases tips covered important information below:
The main/important point/conclusion/reason ....
The point to note here…
2. Structural framework of the following phrases tips below:
There are three major reasons one
3. But contrast and however said, often used to prompt important information, for example:
The rising birth rate is not due to increased fertility, but to a sharp decline in the death rate.
4. In questioning you can highlight the answer to the question in the text, prompting readers important information in the answer, for example:
Why is a piped water supply so important? Disease due to contaminated water is a common cause of death in childhood。
5. Sometimes, in order to ensure the reader fully understand his views, the author is repeatedly put forward their views in the article, for example:
Death control can be achieved autonomously. In other words, the death rate can be cut without anything else changing。
6. Conclusions of the article is often very important, therefore, the reader to look for hints in the text of conclusions "signal words", for example:
Therefore/the result
In conclusion/we can conclude
One of the primary conclusions
7. For example to help readers understand a certain perspective, therefore, examples in the text is not important information when you browse articles. In the course of reading, the following phrase prompts reader for example, below is some information.
For example/instancelike
Such as these include
To illustrate among these are
sometimes, authors will use dashes or parentheses for example, to prompt information, for example:
The developing countries are dependent on cash crops – sugar , coffee, cacao, cotton。
Precipitating/violent/unexpected factors are those which reduce the food supply (droughts, floods, wars, epidemics) one
while browsing in a paragraph, readers see the signal word, should be constantly on the below information to make appropriate judgments, for example:
The main reason for (Note: the below information important) the reduction in the death rate in the developing world has been improved public health measures. For example, (Note: the information below is not important, just to proof the front point of view) in Sri Lanka the death rate was halved over ten years by spraying the mosquitoes which carry malaria。
Why (Note: readers should focus in the answer to the question) is it so easy to cut the death rate in this way and yet so hard to reduce the birth rate? One answer (Note: this is just one of many answers, not the most important. ) is that public health measures can be very cheap. Anti-malarial spraying is inexpensive. But this is not the important point (Note: but is very important information later). For birth control programmes to be successful, a change in attitude is required, whereas death control can be achieved autonomously. In other words, (Note: here is the authors want to emphasize important information) the death rate can be cut without anything else changing.
