520 journal#3 academic reading and reading for pleasure

What is the difference, in your opinion, between academic reading and reading for pleasure? Describe the purpose of each, how you approach each, which you prefer, and why?

To begin with , I concede "reading for pleasure" and "academic reading" have different purposes. Reading for pleasure prefers to entertain people. When people have a rest, and want to find some fresh feelings. They usually look for reading for pleasure, such as novel, to fulfill themselves interests. In this condition, the function of reading for pleasure is as well as movie for enjoying fun at weekend. On the other hand, academic reading more approach to study in specific areas. For example, we generally can see academic reading as an argument to persuade readers to agree with some new discoveries or a description about a new theory or a character in history. Moreover, all of them are focusing on academic study. Based on this, we can see the first difference is purpose.

Furthermore , academic reading and reading for pleasure have different expression. Books from reading for pleasure are close to novels, fictions and poems, which use the narrative or descriptive way to express stories and author's motions. However, when we take a view on articles of academic reading, arguments and analysis are more common to express the author's idea and most of the articles only include the rational thought.

For these reasons, we can see these books from pleasure reading can create a comfortable atmosphere and bring fresh interest to audiences. For example, Harry Potter form J K Rowling be regarded as one of the most fantastic fictions and win the world's favour because it brings all the readers into a magic world to see what they cannot see in real world. And this grateful interest and amazing experience attract wide-range people falling in love with reading for pleasure. On the other hand academic reading introduce new theories and academic information to all the readers. Form these reading, we all appreciate new knowledge as one of factors can create new idea or inventions. Eventually in some specific research, I believe scientists are more like academic reading than pleasure reading when it is related to their study.

Frankly, I like reading for pleasure because it will bring pleasure and laughing into my life. However, I believe, there is an intersection between them. Because,in some sense, academic reading is also a pleasure of reading. When it refers to my study area, the content of article will attract me continuing reading the rest. And new thoughts generated from academic reading also can enrich my knowledge even create new opinion upon this study. Honestly, this is the most amazing experience for me when read academic reading.