repeated skimming works on badly organized material
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one problem of badly organized materials is the order of delivery of examples, concepts being messed up, leading to complex, confusing or hard-to-follow text, caused by readers’ unfamiliarity to the various concepts that are introduced the same time, or the lack of them.
Repeated skimming typically builds long-term memory/awareness of cocnepts without the need to understanding them, which builds up readers familiarity/awareness of concepts and their relationships, which provides ground for the reader to operate idea constructions/reference(you can’t refer to a thing that you are not aware of) with the badly organized material.
1. example
One text on linear algebra may be introducing eigenvalues before everything, and only introducing the usage of it very lately. A reader may be very confused at first until they had reached the end of the text.
With repeated skimming, they may be able to be aware of the eigenvalues usage and possible relationships to other concepts.
such awareness is unlikely to be very specific, for instance they may not be aware of the exact theorems of eigenvalues relations with matrix transformation, but they may be aware of the existence of such relationship, which would allow discussion to happen and helps grounding the concept of eigenvalue into the grand picture of linear algebra