Annie Murphy Paul builds an argument to persuade her audience of the importance of deep reading. Paul talks about different people that proven her argument to show how deep reading is effective. Deep reading is as opposed to the often superficial reading we do on the web which is an endangered practice, one we ought to take steps to preserve as we would a historic building or a significant work of art. She has supported her argument by different people who have done studies of how important reading is. For example, Raymond Mar, a psychologist at York university in Canada reported in studies published in 2006 that individuals who often read fiction appear to be better able to understand other people. Also, Keith Oatley, a professor
