In today's session, you will first learn about different functions of reading during the writing process and compare them with your previous reading behavior. In the next step, we will look at different reading phases and reading goals as well as suitable strategies. In this context, we address questions such as: "How do I process the mountain of specialist literature whose titles all fit my topic at first glance?", "How do I bring order to the information from the texts I have already read?", "How do I deal with it if a text is difficult for me to understand in terms of the specialist language used?" or similar