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All academic study requires a lot of reading. Competent readers adapt their mode of reading to their reading purpose. Reading a novel for pleasure, for instance, is different from reading a philosophic treatise, and looking only for a specific bit of information in that treatise is different from trying to completely understand it.

Figure 1 All academic study requires a lot of reading. Competent readers adapt their mode of reading to their reading purpose. Reading a novel for pleasure, for instance, is different from reading a philosophic treatise, and looking only for a specific bit of information in that treatise is different from trying to completely understand it.