How to Read a Book

Many of the books articles and other documents you’ll read during your undergraduate and graduate years, and possibly during the rest of your professional life won’t be novels. Instead, they’ll be nonfiction textbooks, manuals, journal articles, histories, academic studies, and so on.

The purpose of reading things like this is to gain and retain information. Here finding out what happens—as quickly and easily as possible—is your … [ Read more ]