Title:
How to read nonfiction like a professor : a smart, irreverent guide to biography, history, journalism, blogs, and everything in between
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2020
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2020.
©2020
Physical Description:
xiv, 310 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780063008472
9780062895813
Abstract:
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.
Contents:
What's going on around here? -- Introduction: why critical reading matters -- The structure of nonfiction information -- The ecology of the nonfiction biosphere -- The power of the prologue -- The parts you don't read -- It may just be me, but... -- Source code -- All in how you look at things -- Bringing the news -- Living the news -- From the inside out -- Life from the inside -- That is so last year -- On the stump -- The universe of ideas/ideas of the universe -- Reading internet sources -- Social (media) disease -- The criminal element -- Conclusion: looking for certainty in an uncertain time.
Language:
English
