Personal Reading vs. Research Reading

   The reading that I am most familiar with would be books that I borrow or purchase for personal enjoyment.  When I read books such as The Tipping Point it is contrasts what I am used to.  With my personal readings it is easy for me to sit back relax and kind of let my mind drift a bit from the novel.  When it comes to research reading I make sure that I am annotating along with underlineing key points.  This way I can remember important facts or questions that are in the reading for me to go back and cross reference in the text.  Research reading also includes numbers such as statistics along with other tools like surveys for specific research questions.  This takes much more focus and attention to absorb whats important in the text.