1. knowledge update: academic papers are the embodiment of the latest research achievements and viewpoints in academic circles. By reading the paper, you can know and master the latest trends and development trends in your research field in time.

2. Improve research ability: Reading papers can help us learn other people's research methods and skills and improve our research ability and level. At the same time, through the critical reading of the paper, exercise your logical thinking and ability to analyze problems.

3. Broaden our horizons: Reading papers can not only help us understand our own research fields, but also expose us to research in other related fields, thus broadening our knowledge horizons and ways of thinking.

4. Improve writing ability: Reading papers can help us learn excellent writing skills and methods, and improve writing ability and paper quality.

5. Establishing academic network: It is very important for personal academic development and cooperative research to learn about the work and opinions of other researchers by reading papers, so as to establish your own academic network.

6. Cultivate independent thinking ability: Reading a paper requires us to think critically about the author's point of view, which helps to cultivate our independent thinking ability and judgment.

Generally speaking, paper reading is an important way for personal academic development, which can help us update our knowledge, enhance our ability, broaden our horizons, improve our writing ability, establish academic networks and cultivate our independent thinking ability.