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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everyth, (Paperback)
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Insightful Approach
Offers a clever and engaging method to analyze nonfiction works, making it accessible and enjoyable for readers of all levels.
Diverse Topics
Covers a wide range of genres, including biography, history, and journalism, ensuring relevance to a variety of interests and enhancing knowledge base.
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Equips readers with analytical tools and critical thinking skills, empowering them to delve deeper into nonfiction texts and enhance their comprehension.
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- The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in an information age, but it is increasingly difficult to know which information to trust. Fake news is rampant in mass media, stoked by foreign powers wishing to disrupt a democratic society. We need to be more perceptive, more critical, and more judicious readers, developing the essential skills of media literacy. The future of our republic may depend on it.How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is more careful, more attentive, more aware reading. On bookstore shelves, one book looks as authoritative as the next. Online, posts and memes don't announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers to establish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be by learning to think critically about every source.After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific nonfiction reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on identifying bias from writers, interrogating claims, analyzing arguments, remaining wary of broad assertions and easy answers, and thinking critically about the written and spoken materials readers encounter. We can become better citizens through better reading, and the time for that is now.How can you learn to spot writers' biases, analyze arguments, and think critically about the information you encounter every day?Critical Reading: Learn the Four Ps of nonfiction (Problem, Promise, Program, and Platform) to understand any text's structure and intent from the very first page.Analyzing Arguments: Discover the building blocks of any argument--Claims, Grounds, and Warrants--so you can deconstruct a writer's case and spot logical flaws.Evaluating Sources: From traditional journalism and biographies to the latest social media post, get specific strategies for interrogating every source you encounter.Fake News: Navigate the modern information age with confidence by learning to identify disinformation, hoaxes, and bad-faith writing online and in print.
| Publication date | May, 2020 |
| Author | Thomas C Foster |
| Book format | Paperback |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Pages | 432 |
| Age group | Adult |
| Binding type | Perfect Binding |
| Series title | No Series |
| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Educational level | General |
| Subgenre | Books & Reading |
| Awards won | Gourmand World Cookbook Award Best Single Subject Book in English |
| Illustrator | Eddie Campbell |
| Original languages | English |
| Edu focus | Language Arts |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Is collectible | N |
| Bisac subject heading | Literary Criticism |
| Edition | 1 |
| Language | English |
| Pub date | 2020-05-26 |
| Item Weight | 1 lbs (450 grams) |
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This book provides insights for students looking to enhance their nonfiction reading skills for academic success.
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Ideal for individuals who enjoy exploring diverse nonfiction materials and want to absorb information more effectively.
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Book Clubs
Great resource for book clubs focusing on nonfiction, encouraging deeper discussion and critical thinking about the material.
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Casual Readers
Not suitable for casual readers seeking light entertainment; this book demands a more analytical approach to reading.
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything is an enlightening paperback that spans 432 pages, published in May 2020 by HarperCollins. This guide, steeped in literary criticism, reveals strategies for engaging with non-fictional texts, making it perfect for readers eager to enrich their understanding of the genre. Readers appreciate its accessible approach, which demystifies complex literary works while providing insightful commentary. This book stands out for its humor and wit, making the process of learning both enjoyable and informative, suitable for anyone at a general educational level.
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- Engaging and humorous writing style
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- Great for enhancing reading comprehension
- Suitable for general educational levels
- Award-winning guidance on literary criticism
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- May not appeal to those preferring fiction
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