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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

by Mortimer J. Adler Author

(From Amazon): How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author's message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science. Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed.

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Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
0671212095
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
21
Pages
426
Suggested Grades
9th - 12th
Publisher
Touchstone
Edition
Revised
Copyright
1972

Chapters

  • 1 The Activity and Art of Reading
  • 2 The Levels of Reading
  • 3 The First Level of Reading: Elementary Readgin
  • 4 The Second Level of Reading: Inspectional Reading
  • 5 How to Be a Demanding Reader
  • 6 Pigeonholing a Book
  • 7 X-Raying a Book
  • 8 Coming to Terms with an Author
  • 9 Determining an Author's Message
  • 10 Criticizing a Book Fairly
  • 11 Agreeing or Disagreeing with an Author
  • 12 Aids to Reading
  • 13 How to Read Practical Books
  • 14 How to Read Imaginative Literature
  • 15 Suggestions for Reading Stories, Plays and Poems
  • 16 How to Read History
  • 17 How to Read Science and Mathematics
  • 18 How to Read Philosophy
  • 19 How to Read Social Science
  • 20 The Fourth Level of Reading: Syntopical Reading
  • 21 Reading and the Growth of the Mind

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