Previewing is one o the important aspects of understanding the writer’s perspective and read main ideas to unfold the writer’s message in the articles. One of the well know way to go through is visual signal and verbal signals.

Visual signals:-

-Title

-Read the opening and closing paragraphs

-Headings

-Italicized and boldfaced words

-visuals ( graphs, charts, tables, photographs)

Verbal signals:-

Look for the phases like:

-The primary idea

-recurring words

-In addition, furthermore

-First, after, then, next

-because, for this reason

-for instance

-likewise, similarly

-however, although

-however, specifically

-in other words

-Conclusion

 

To summarize the preview many reader combined both of highlighting and annotating techniques.