Comparing/Contrasting Reading Habits

For my everyday types of reading in college, I read a lot of emails, textbook assignments, and posts on facebook. While reading the two chapters in Gladwell's book, the genre is reading someone elses research. While reading facebook posts, they are usually about what a person is doing or how they are feeling at that point in time. You don't really have to think a whole lot when reading on facebook. The Tipping Point makes you think about different topics that you normally wouldn't hear or think about. It's a different type of reading because there is a lot of research, but Gladwell also includes a lot of examples to back up what he has to say. A big research technique that he uses is doing interviews. Throughout the first two chapters of the book you are reading about the interviews he went on and also what he gained and learned from the interviews. This is different reading than sitting down and reading a textbook for a certain subject. The entire text is about that main point and makes you think about that point while reading. Gladwell's research gives you different topics and points to think about.