Annie Murphy Paul Summary

Annie Murphy Paul uses several forms of factual evidence from multiple sources. She also uses emotion-laced wordings to get her point across about how important deep reading is. Annie builds her argument by using factual evidence from Raymond Mar and Kieth Oatley, that states that individuals who read fiction often "appear to be better able to understand other people and empathize with them." By using this evidence, it allows the audience to learn one of the many benefits of deep reading. She also uses words such as endangered,preserve, disappearance, and distinctive, to appeal to the audiences emotion by making them feel that if they lose this"significant work of art", "Its disappearance would imperil the intellectual and emotional