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They need to read for information.
They don't read for information, and they don't read for beautiful escape.
Of course no teacher disputes the necessity of being able to read for information.
Much like a barcode is read for information, the circuits are engineered to communicate information such as the cost of an item of clothing or groceries.
You read for delight, and you read for information, and you read to decide what you are going to do next.
In pre-modern cultures, stories were read for information or edification or titillation, and the more serious literary forms, poetry and drama, required a certain degree of technical mastery.
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Re "Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?" ("The Future of Reading" series, front page, July 27): In our monetized, commoditized, investment-obsessed culture, reading for information is all our children have time for.
Figuring out what you want to do requires reading for information, something that kids do in school all the time.
In Illinois, for example, all 11th graders take the tests in applied mathematics and "reading for information" as a diagnostic tool.
"I believe the electronic book has a future," says Weidenfeld. "But that is the case for reading for information - some genres will, broadly, disappear in paper format.
By the way, a lawyer needs level 5 in listening, observation, teamwork and writing and level 7 in reading for information.
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