How to use addendums (dictionaries, abstracts, and other books) when reading a book.Show where the author is illogical, misinformed, uninformed, and/or incomplete.Demonstrate that you understand the difference between personal opinion and knowledge (present good reasons for any criticism you make).Don’t disagree in a heated, provoking manner.You are not allowed to say “I agree,” or “I disagree” until you can say “I understand.”.How to properly agree or disagree with the author.Figuring out how to criticize a book fairly (you first need to understand the book to start criticizing it).Determine what problems did the author solve and which ones did he fail to solve.Or if they can’t be found, constructing them from the provided material. Knowing and understanding the author’s main arguments.Finding the author’s main arguments by dealing with his most important sentences and paragraphs.Come to terms with the author by interpreting his key words.The second stage of analytical reading:.Finding the key propositions, arguments, sentences, phrases, and solutions the author provides.
Defining the keywords and phrases the author uses.Define the problem(s) the author is grasping (dealing) with.Explain by order the major parts of the book and provide simple outlines for the parts.Stating what the book is about in a single sentence or paragraph.Classyfing the book according to type and subject matter.X-raying the book and the first stage of analytical reading:.Classifying the book as a theoretical or practical book and the things we can learn from the title of the book.…is solely focused on the third level of reading: analytical reading. The four basic questions the reader needs to ask when reading the book:.Inspectional reading helps us create an outline/skeleton/structure of the book so we can easily systemize the information.This is where you just sit down and read the book without stopping to ponder about a new word, argument, or writing anything as a note or marginalia. This is where you read the chapter titles, headings, subheads, the intro and outro of the book, and the book jacket (if there’s one). The second (inspectional) level of reading.You learn to decipher the ink on paper and “read.” The first (elementary) level of reading.
…talks concerns itself about the dimensions of reading. How To Read A Book has 4 major parts and several chapters in them. The entire book is structured around 4 levels of reading: How To Read A Book teaches us not only why it’s important to read books, but how to read them.
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