9780062895813
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor
How to Read Like a Professor
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. 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. After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. We can become better citizens through better reading, and the time for that is now.
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial US
  • Publication date: 26/05/2020
  • ISBN: 9780062895813
  • Page extent: 336
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 203 mm x 135 mm
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