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The Four Basic Questions a Read Asks 1) What is the book about as a whole? 2) What is being said in detail, and how? 3) Is the book true, in whole or part? 4) What of it? Full ownership of a book only comes you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. The Three Kinds of Note-making: structural, conceptual, shape of the discussion(dialectical).
— Sep 21, 2015 07:21AM
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Four categories of the extrinsic aids to reading: relevant experiences, other books, commentaries and abstracts, and reference books.
— Oct 02, 2015 07:08PM
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Four Special Criteria for Points of Criticism rules for the third stage of Analytical Reading: Criticizing a Book as a Communication of Knowledge.
— Sep 29, 2015 11:12AM
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Three General Maxims of Intellectual Etiquette rules for the third stage of Analytical Reading: Criticizing a Book as a Communication of Knowledge.
— Sep 28, 2015 11:36PM
Ithaca Wang
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Other three for THE SECOND STAGE OF ANALYTICAL READING, OR RULES FOR FINDING WHAT A BOOK SAYS (INTERPRETING ITS CONTENTS ): Rule 6. Grasp the author's leading propositions by dealing with his most important sentences. Rule 7. Know the author's arguments, by finding them in, or constructing them out of, sequences of sentences. Rule 8. FIND OUT WHAT THE AUTHOR'S SOLUTION ARE.
— Sep 26, 2015 12:40AM
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First rule for the second stage of analytical reading, RULE 5. FIND THE IMPORTANT WORDS AND THROUGH THEM COME TO TERMS WITH THE AUTHOR.
— Sep 24, 2015 07:29AM
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Three Other Analytical Reading Rules: Rule 2. State what the whole book is about with the utmost brevity. Rule 3. Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole. Rule 4. Define the problem or problems the author is trying to solve.
— Sep 23, 2015 01:03PM
