Thursday, April 15, 2010

Inspectional Reading

One of the books I'm going to have my highschooler go through is "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler and Charles van Doren. Even though he hasn't started the book yet, while he's being introduced to the various high school courses I do want him to use some of the principles contained. Fortunately, the internet makes it super-easy to preview concepts in books -- in effect, do some of the pre-reading or as Adler says, "inspectional reading" that helps one to get the most from the act of reading.

Here are a few links:

A blog summary of the book. He quotes a fairly substantial section of the chapter on inspectional reading.
A Google preview of the chapter.

How to Read a Difficult Book
(hint: just read it)
A tutorial on reading 101

An outline of the whole book.

A couple of PDFs

How to read a book for discussion

How to Read a Book (College study skills)
another version

Common Room (with link to video clip)

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