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Activity

Below, you’ll find several questions that help you practice how to preview a text. Each question targets a different part of the text that you should preview. After following the directions and selecting your answer, scroll down to read the feedback and continue to the next question.

Click on the heading.
Does the text below contain any section objectives? If so, click on them.
Find and click on the figures in this passage.
Find and click on all of the bold-faced words in this passage.
When previewing a text, which paragraph should you skim? Click on the correct paragraph shown in the text below.

Attributions
The following text was sampled in this activity:

OpenStax College, Anatomy & Physiology. OpenStax College. 25 April 2013. <http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/>.

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