This exercise can be used to prepare students for academic reading and provide them with a deeper understanding of their field of study. The exercise introduces the students to the different text genres they encounter and will be working with in the course.
The objective of the exercise is for the students to become aware that texts are written for different purposes and can therefore be read in different ways. You can assist your students in the process by guiding them in their reading, by for instance explaining the purpose of the text and not least asking some questions that will make the students focus on the importance of this particular learning context. By working with the text at a meta level (what is the purpose of the text, and what is then important to notice), the students discover that different academic texts are read and used differently.
