Htrab Flashcards
Reading for info v. Reading for understanding
Info-understand everything
Understanding- yet to understand but try with just the book no outside sources to understand
Difference between active and passive
Reading?
Active demands something from
The book passive does not
Who is responsible for learning?
Student
4 levels of reading
Elementary “what does the sentence say?”
Inspectional- emphasis on time “what is the book about?”
Analytical intensely active, heavy demands for reader
Syntopical reading many books and comparing
Constructing an analysis of the subject that may no be in any one book
Most important requirement for being a demanding reader
Stay awake
Simple prescriptions for active reading?
Ask questions while you read
What are the four main questions an active reader must ask?
What is the book about as a whole?
What is being said in detail and how?
Is the book true, in whole or part?
What of it?
Difference between theoretical or practical books?
Practical how to this book
Theoretical calculus
What does it mean to come to terms with an author
Determining the meaning of the important words the author uses with precision
How does a reader identify the important words when reading? How may the author help?
Understand passage as a whole make the words that trouble you most where you fail to come
To terms
The author helps by defining words
What is an argument?
A set or series of statements of which some
Provide the grounds or reasons for what is to
Be concluded
What is a proposition?
An expression of the authors judgement about something
How may a reader
Criticize a book fairly?
Show where the author is uniformed, misinformed, illogical, or where the authors analysis or account is incomplete
