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Learning Objectives
In this part, you will learn how to
1 Stay on top of your college reading assignments.
2 Approach essays, short stories, and poetry.
Reading is much more than just a necessary life
skill, and reading provides much more than
entertainment or information. Lifelong reading
enhances both your vocabulary and your thinking
skills. Further, lifelong reading helps you absorb
the diction and sentence structure of good writers,
thus improving your writing skills. It is never too
late to begin to accrue the benefits that daily
reading will bring you. You can start right now.