Reading Literature Makes USarter And Nicer Summary

In “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer”, Annie Murphy Paul claims that old fashioned reading from a book is more beneficial for our “capacity for empathy” and intellectual development, rather than the “superficial reading we do when scrolling through TMZ”. Specifically, she believes that “Deep reading’ is vigorous from the brain and increases our real life capacity for empathy”. Disagreeing with Paul is difficult, simply because of her immerse use of factual evidence that supports her claim, is why I agree with her.

Reason being why I agree with her is because I fit right in the description of the person Paul is addressing, one that doesn’t deep read but in fact, does the “superficial reading on the web”. Coping with an everyday