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the complex art of reading; the flexible application of the basic rules to different types of reading, in fact to every variety of reading matter; the discovery and formulation of new rules of reading; and the conception of a pyramid of books to read, broad at the bottom and tapering at the top—all these things, not
this new edition of How to Read a Book deals with the prob lem and proposes variable-speed-reading as the solution, the aim being to read better, always better, but sometimes slower,
How to Read a Book. Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren. Book details. Book preview. Table of contents. Citations. About This Book. 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.
Read a Book deals with the problem and proposes variable-speed-reading as the solution, the aim being to read better, always better, but sometimes slower, sometimes faster.
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Paul N. Edwards 5 How to Read a Book a) Overview: discovery (5-10 percent of total time) Here you read very quickly, following the principle (described below) of reading for high information content. Your goal is to discover the book. You want a quick-and-dirty, unsophisticated, general picture of the writer’s purpose, methods, and conclusions.
Paul N. Edwards 2 How to Read a Book 1) Read the whole book In reading to learn, your goal should always be to get all the way through the assignment. It’s much more important to have a general grasp of the arguments or hypotheses, evidence, and conclusions than to understand every detail.
May 10, 2011 · 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...
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading Ask questions while you read — questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading. Any questions? No. The art of reading on any level above the elementary consists in the habit of asking the right questions in the right order. There are
Jan 8, 2020 · The 1972 edition of the famous How to Read a Book. (The first page of the PDF is the cover of the first edition. The rest of the PDF is the 1972 edition.)
