How to read a book

By:

Adler, Mortimer Jerome

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Simon and Schuster 1972Description: xiii, 426 pages; 22 cmISBN:

9780671212803, 9780671212094, 9781439510261, 067121280X, 0671212095, 1439510261

Subject(s):

Lecture Leitura Literary criticism Nonfiction Reading

DDC classification:

801.95 ADL 01771

Dissertation note: Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them

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Part one. The dimensions of reading
The activity and art of reading
The levels of reading
The first level of reading : elementary reading
The second level of reading : inspectional reading
How to be a demanding reader
Part two. The third level of reading : Analytical reading
Pigeonholing a book
X-raying a book
Coming to terms with an author
Determining an author's message
Criticizing a book fairly
Agreeing or disagreeing with an author
Aids to reading
Part three. Approaches to different kinds of reading matter
How to read practical books
How to read imaginative literature
Suggestions for reading stories, plays, and poems
How to read history
How to read science and mathematics
How to read philosophy
How to read social science
Part four. The ultimate goals of reading
The fourth level of reading: syntopical reading
Reading and the growth of the mind
Appendix A.A recommended reading list
Appendix B. Exercises and tests at the four levels of reading

Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them

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