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How To Read A Book, Revised | Touchstone | Homeschool | Mortimer Jerome Adler
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How to Read a Book is an essential resource for all readers, providing a comprehensive overview of the various levels of reading and tips and techniques for moving to the higher levels. It is a classic guide to intelligent reading, filled with insights and advice for those who want to learn how to read well. It is not just a method of speed reading, but a book for the college-bound student.
With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general re…
With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: "Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done." -Farheed ZakariaOriginally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them-from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to "judge a book by its cover," and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the authors message from the text. Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.
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How to Read a Book is an essential resource for all readers, providing a comprehensive overview of the various levels of reading and tips and techniques for moving to the higher levels. It is a classic guide to intelligent reading, filled with insights and advice for those who want to learn how to read well. It is not just a method of speed reading, but a book for the college-bound student.
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- Logically structured approach
- Valuable resource for readers
- Covers various reading levels
- Includes recommended reading lists
- Easy to understand
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- Lacks new information
- Little new information for some readers
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With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. A CNN Book of the Week: "Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done." -Farheed ZakariaOriginally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them-from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Readers will learn when and how to "judge a book by its cover," and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the authors message from the text. Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres, such as practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science works. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension, and speed.
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