As a kids’s guide editor, I’ve helped hundreds of authors write, edit and publish their kids’s guide. Easy methods to Learn a Book , initially written by Mortimer Adler in 1940 and revised with Charles van Doren in 1972, is the form of guide typically described as a living classic” — traditional” as a result of it deals with the basic and unchanging mesmerism of the written word, and residing” as a result of it does so in a method that divorces this mesmerism from its arduous medium, permitting the essence to evolve as our culture has developed over the decades. From fundamental reading to systematic skimming and inspectional studying to speed studying, Adler’s how-to’s apply as efficiently to sensible textbooks and science books as they do to poetry and fiction.
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