Description
This classic guide teaches you how to read with purpose—moving beyond passive consumption to genuine understanding. In clear, practical steps, it introduces four levels of reading, from skimming to “mastery,” showing how to match your method to the kind of book you’re tackling. Along the way, you’ll learn how to approach structure, arguments, and meaning so that reading becomes a tool for thinking, not just information gathering. Written with the authority of Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Lincoln Van Doren, the book’s enduring appeal lies in its disciplined, intellectually ambitious approach to turning any text into a conversation you can actually have.
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hardcover
Touchstone
Published Sep 30, 2014
448 pages
ISBN: 9781476790152
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First Published
1940
Language
eng
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