You may approach your college education with concrete goals of getting a job and earning money, aspirations that often qualify as success in our society. The genres we are reading in this text (poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction) may or may not be genres you will read in your eventual career. Consider and articulate how reading these genres and practicing the skills of reading creatively and reading critically may be beneficial in both your academic and your professional future. Your response: Reading different genres of literature can be beneficial in my academics and my professional future. After learning the different ways to synthesize reading, I am more confident in reading various genres. Poetry used to have me a little puzzled at first.