c. Reading to Escape
This reading is the automated day dream, the mild trip of the housewife and the tired businessman.
d. Reading to Engage
If we read a work of literature properly, we read slowly, and we hear all the words. If our lips do not actually move, it‟s only laziness. The muscles in our throats move, and
come together wh en we see the word “squeeze.” We hear the sounds so accurately
that if a syllable is missing in a line of poetry we hear the lack, though we may not know what we are lacking. In prose we accept the rhythms, and hear the adjacent
sounds.
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5. Purpose of Reading
Everyone has their own reason when they read something. Experts differentiate the purpose of reading according to their own theory.
Grabe and Stoller state the purpose of reading as follow :
a. Reading to search for simple information
In reading to search, the reader typically scan the text for a specific piece of information or a specific word.
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Hall Donald,
Four Kinds of Reading,
Thinking in Writing, 2
nd
ed. Donald Mc Quade and Robert Atwan, New York: knopf , 1993, pp. 162-167
b. Reading to skim quickly
Reading to skim i.e. sampling segments of the text for a general understanding is a common part of many reading task and a useful skill it is own right. It involves, in
essence, a combination of strategies for guessing where important information might be in the text, and than using basic reading comprehension skills on those segments
of the text until a general idea is formed.
c. Reading to learn from texts
Reading to learn typically occurs in academic and professional contexts in which a person need to learn a considerable amount of information from a text.
d. Reading to integrate information, write and critiques texts
Reading to integrate information requires additional decisions about the relative importance of complementary, mutually supporting or conflicting information and the
likely restructuring of a rhetorical frame to accommodate information from multiple sources.
e. Reading for general comprehension
The nation of general reading comprehension has been intentionally saved for last in this discussion for two reasons. First, it is the most basic purpose of reading,
underlying and supporting most other purpose for reading. Second, general reading comprehension is actually more complex than commonly assumed.
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Grabe and Stoller, Reading-Comprehension,
http:beddebah- haterulez.blogspot.com201207purpose-of reading.html
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