Description: How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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.We live in an information age, but it is increasingly difficult to know which information to trust. Fake news is rampant in mass media, stoked by foreign powers wishing to disrupt a democratic society. We need to be more perceptive, more critical, and more judicious readers. The future of our republic may depend on it. How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is more careful, more attentive, more aware reading. On bookstore shelves, one book looks as authoritative as the next. Online, posts and memes dont announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers to establish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be. After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on understanding writers biases, interrogating claims, analyzing arguments, remaining wary of broad assertions and easy answers, and thinking critically about the written and spoken materials readers encounter. We can become better citizens through better reading, and the time for that is now. Author Biography Thomas C. Foster, author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor and Reading the Silver Screen, is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he taught classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry, as well as creative writing and freelance writing. The author of several books on 20th-century British and Irish literature and poetry. Review "[This] zippy, pragmatic book will appeal to readers in search of guidance on separating fact from fiction in an age of information overload." -- Publishers Weekly Review Quote "[This] zippy, pragmatic book will appeal to readers in search of guidance on separating fact from fiction in an age of information overload." -- Publishers Weekly Details ISBN0062999125 Author Thomas C. Foster Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Year 2020 ISBN-10 0062999125 ISBN-13 9780062999122 Format Paperback Country of Publication United States Short Title How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor Language English Pages 432 Publication Date 2020-05-26 US Release Date 2020-05-26 UK Release Date 2020-05-26 Imprint HarperCollins Place of Publication New York, NY Subtitle A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between [Large Edited by Pau Herrero Birth 1927 Death 1973 Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Position journalist Qualifications S. J. Alternative 9780062895882 DEWEY 028.7 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-12-01 NZ Release Date 2020-12-01 Imprint US Harper Large Print Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138845160;
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Book Title: How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between [Large
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Author: Thomas C. Foster
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Language: English
Topic: Literature
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Publication Year: 2020
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Number of Pages: 432 Pages
