{"id":1726,"date":"2016-09-09T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymaker-collegesuccess\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1726"},"modified":"2016-09-26T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T18:16:35","slug":"text-the-purpose-of-academic-reading","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-buffalo-wmopen-collegesuccess\/chapter\/text-the-purpose-of-academic-reading\/","title":{"raw":"Text: The Purpose of Academic Reading","rendered":"Text: The Purpose of Academic Reading"},"content":{"raw":"Casual reading across genres, from books and magazines to newspapers and blogs, is something students should be encouraged to do in their free time because it can be both\u00a0educational and fun. In college, however, instructors generally expect students to read resources that have particular value in the context of a course.\u00a0Why is academic reading beneficial?\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Information comes from reputable sources<\/strong>: Web sites and blogs can be a source of insight and information, but not all\u00a0are useful as academic resources. They may be written by people or companies whose main purpose is to share an opinion or sell you something. Academic sources\u00a0such as textbooks and scholarly journal articles,\u00a0on the other hand, are usually written by experts in the field and have to\u00a0pass stringent peer review requirements in order to get published.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Learn how to form arguments<\/strong>: In most college classes except for creating writing, when instructors ask you\u00a0to write a paper, they expect it to be argumentative in style. 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