How to Read a BookSimon and Schuster, 10 mag 2011 - 426 pagine 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 Zakaria Originally 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 author’s 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. |
Dall'interno del libro
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Pagina 7
... course , is too simple . The reason is that there are two possible relations between your mind and the book , not just one . These two relations are exemplified by two different experiences that you can have in reading your book . There ...
... course , is too simple . The reason is that there are two possible relations between your mind and the book , not just one . These two relations are exemplified by two different experiences that you can have in reading your book . There ...
Pagina 9
... course of reading if the new facts are of the same sort as those you already know . A person who knows some of the facts of American history and under- stands them in a certain light can readily acquire by reading , in the first sense ...
... course of reading if the new facts are of the same sort as those you already know . A person who knows some of the facts of American history and under- stands them in a certain light can readily acquire by reading , in the first sense ...
Pagina 11
... course , that you should be able to remember what the author said as well as know what he meant . Being informed is prerequisite to being enlightened . The point , how- ever , is not to stop at being informed . Montaigne speaks of " an ...
... course , that you should be able to remember what the author said as well as know what he meant . Being informed is prerequisite to being enlightened . The point , how- ever , is not to stop at being informed . Montaigne speaks of " an ...
Pagina 13
... course of reading and listening , just as we must think in the course of research . Naturally , the kinds of thinking are different — as different as the two ways of learning are . The reason why many people regard thinking as more ...
... course of reading and listening , just as we must think in the course of research . Naturally , the kinds of thinking are different — as different as the two ways of learning are . The reason why many people regard thinking as more ...
Pagina 14
... course , an intellect trained in analysis and reflection . The reason for this is that reading in this sense is discovery , too- although with help instead of without it . Present and Absent Teachers We have been proceeding as if ...
... course , an intellect trained in analysis and reflection . The reason for this is that reading in this sense is discovery , too- although with help instead of without it . Present and Absent Teachers We have been proceeding as if ...
Sommario
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PART | 57 |
Coming to Terms with an Author | 96 |
Determining an Authors Message | 114 |
Criticizing a Book Fairly | 137 |
Suggestions for Reading Stories Plays and Poems | 215 |
How to Read History | 234 |
tions to Ask of a Historical Book | 241 |
About Current Events 248 A Note on Digests | 252 |
Understanding the Scientific Enterprise 256 Sugges | 258 |
How to Read Philosophy | 270 |
How to Read Social Science | 296 |
PART FOUR | 305 |
Agreeing or Disagreeing with an Author | 152 |
Aids to Reading | 168 |
The Role of Relevant Experience 169 Other Books | 182 |
PART THREE | 189 |
How to Read Imaginative Literature | 203 |
Reading and the Growth of the Mind | 337 |
Appendix A A Recommended Reading List | 347 |
Appendix B Exercises and Tests at the Four Levels | 363 |
Index | 421 |
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Brani popolari
Pagina 79 - These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory; and withal to put on record what were their grounds of feud.
Pagina 374 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pagina 77 - Thus the story of the Odyssey can be stated briefly. A certain man is absent from home for many years; he is jealously watched by Poseidon, and left desolate. Meanwhile his home is in a wretched plight — suitors are wasting his substance and plotting against his son. At length, tempest-tost, he himself arrives; he makes certain persons acquainted with him; he attacks the suitors with his own hand, and is himself preserved while he destroys them. This is the essence of the plot ; the rest is episode.
Pagina 393 - ; and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from longcontinued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favorable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavorable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work...
Pagina 407 - Further, the state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is of necessity prior to the part...
Pagina 372 - I deduced that the forces which keep the Planets in their Orbs must [be] reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve: and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth, and found them answer pretty nearly.