introducSuhn .praktitiohnerz enteyuhring sahyentifik and teCnikal fields ahr konfronted uiT an oSuhn of informaSuhn and Te tahyd uill konstantlee rahyz .as a reeder you uill strugguhl too staee kurrent uiT Te literaCur in order too maintain and advahns your posiSuhn in your field .it is a truism Tat Te task of reeding aul Te informaSuhn publiSed in leeding journals in aul but Te most narraulee defahyned speSulties is imposibuhl .Te problem for you as a reeder uill not be reeding faster but learning hau too selekt huat is uorThuahyl too reed slaulee .as a laiperson reeding in areas outsahyd your field of eXpertahyz you uill konfronted bahy a languaij not your oun .Te problem for you as a reeder uill not be too bekuhm an eXpert in dozens of fields but too rekognize Te teCnikez for reeding in your oun field and releyt Tem too oTer fields .in Tis Capter ue uill eXamahyn stratijeez for hau too reed and kritikallee ases sahyentifik and teCnikal literaCur from Te perspektiv of Te praktitiohner and Te laiperson in a tahymlee manner Te posibiliteez of reeding .our approaCes too reeding often varee uahydlee and for Te most part remain uneXamahyned .tipikallee ue understand reeding as a pasiv individual aktivitee about huik ue reseev no formal instrucSuhn after Cildhood .implisitlee it seems ue develop our oun reeding stratijeez .you maee prefer too reed in a surtain plas under spesifik kondiSuhns .presed for tahym you maee onlee reed Te introducSuhn konkluzhuhn and subhedingz too an artikle too be diskused in klas Tat daee .you maee skip Te uords in a fysics teXtbook altogeTer too get too Te maTematikal formulas .you maee reed a neuspaper in a riCua manner uuhn secSuhn proseeding Te neXt .huahyl eak Teez stratijeez ahr unik akademik disiplinez enkouraij surtain posibiliteez for reeding bahy reguleyting Te eXpreszhuhn producSuhn and presentaSuhn of a teXt .in part hau ue reed results from Te aktiviteez going on behind Te senes of Te uords ue reed .behind Te senes of a teXt maee lie Te kompleX linguistik skills of a poet or Te kompleX researk skills of researCers in a laboratoree .in a poets seys Te aktivitee of urahyting is generallee privit .poets yooz imaginaSuhn and personal insahyt in desahyding huat is troo .houeever konsumers usuallee see Te servisez of poets as minor .reeding poetree is asoSeeeyted uiT leisure .in a researCers seys Te aktivitee of urahyting is publik uiTin Teir profeszhuhn .researCers yooz eak oTers uork in desahyding huat is troo or facCua .konsumers see researk as valueybuhl .reeding sahyens is asoSeeeyted uiT uhkuhmpliSing a task .huat ue fas in part huen reeding a poem or researk artikle is Te organizaSuhnal strucCur Tat helps urahyt Te teXt .as reederz ue approak poetree rahytlee or uronglee as Te produkt of a les formal hahylee individual proses huik meykez poetree mohr aksesibuhl .reeding poetree uuhn does not hav too kontend uiT Te teCnikal apparatus grafs Carts referensez too instruments jargon and referensez too oTer uork found in sahyentifik and teCnikal urahyting .sahyentifik and teCnikal urahyting is les aksesibuhl furTer reederz of sahyentifik and teCnikal urahyting auait a unusual dilemma . Te pekuliaritee of Te sahyentifik literaCur is nau klear Te onlee Tree posibuhl reedingz leed too Te demahyz of Te teXt .if you giv up Te teXt does not kount and mahyt as uell not hav been uritten at aul .if you go along you belieev it so muk Tat it is kuiklee abstrakted abrijed stylized and sinks into tasit praktis .lastlee if you uork Trou Te auTors trials you kuit Te teXt and enter Te laboratoree .Tus Te sahyentifik teXt is Ceysing its reederz auaee hueTer or not it is suhksesful .meyd for attak and defense it is no mohr a plas for a leisurlee staee Tan a basSuhn or a bunker .Tis meykez it kuahyt different from Te reeding of Te bibuhl stendhal or Te poems of t.s .eliot .bruno latour sahyens in acSuhn p .