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, developing the essential skills of media literacy. 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 don't announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers to establish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be by learning to think critically about every source.
After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific nonfiction reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on identifying bias from writers, 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.
How can you learn to spot writers' biases, analyze arguments, and think critically about the information you encounter every day?
| ISBN: | 9780062895813 |
| Publication date: | 11th June 2020 |
| Author: | Thomas C Foster |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Genres: |
Media studies: journalism News media and journalism Media studies Language readers Literacy Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Literary studies: poetry and poets Politics and government Poetry Literature: history and criticism |
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, developing the essential skills of media literacy. 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 don't announce their relative veracity. It is up to readers to establish how accurate, how thorough, how fair material may be by learning to think critically about every source.
After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor offers advice for specific nonfiction reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on identifying bias from writers, 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.
How can you learn to spot writers' biases, analyze arguments, and think critically about the information you encounter every day?
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor features in the following genres: Media studies: journalism, News media and journalism, Media studies, Language readers, Literacy, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Politics and government, Poetry, Literature: history and criticism
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is available in Paperback
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor was written by Thomas C Foster and published by Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor has 336 pages