Free postage on Australian web orders over $99 // Please note we have moved our warehouse to our Stanmore location.
Your cart is currently empty.
© 2024 Reformers Bookshop
Join our mailing list to hear about specials and the best new releases!
Rule number 2 of Analytical Reading is: Know what the book is about. More specifically, Adler says you must be able to state what the 'unity' of th...
We are now on to learning about the third level of reading: Analytical Reading. We will slow down now, as Adler takes us through how to read analy...
Last time, we looked at how we need to learn to ask questions of our book. Previously, we have seen how there is a goal in reading - to understand...
The questions we are about to learn must not just be stored somewhere in the back of your mind. It must become a habit to ask these questions as yo...
Think about what your eyes are doing as they read - even this article. Do they flow smoothly across the page/screen? Or is the movement jolted, sto...
'Superficial reading' is where you read right through the book without stopping, ignoring the parts that you don't understand, paying no attention ...
Here Adler comes to the first really practical advise about how to read a book. He advises the reader on how to pre-read a book. Before we go thro...
Perhaps most interesting in this chapter was the description Adler gives of the process a person goes through as they learn how to master elementar...
The next principle that Adler covers is the different levels of reading. He presents 4 levels: Elementary, Inspectional, Analytical and Syntopical.
The implication of all this is that we really should be wanting to find the ‘original communicators’ of truth. And as our society documents more a...
This gives us a glimpse into what it means to read for understanding. It means to not only remember what the author is saying but to understand why...
Reading to increase in understanding occurs when you push yourself. When you pick up a book that contains concepts that are beyond you – that you n...
Sign up for our mailing list to hear about new releases and special prices.