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Adler / Van Doren: How to Read a Book## (1. nivå - elementaryFinding what…
Adler / Van Doren: How to Read a Book##
Sammendrag
Big idea:
Ulike måter å tilnærme seg en tekst på krever ulik type lesning
tre typer kunnskap; praktisk, informativ og omfattende
Tre lesestadier: structural stage, interpretive stage og critical stage
Del 1 - the dimensions of reading
The activity and art of reading
:soccer: Active / passive - like send and catch a ball
Unlike a ball - could be caught partly
Information or understanding?
level - elementary
2 level - inspectional
Be a demanding reader
3. nivå - analytisk
"Critical stage"
Rule 9: Determining an
authors message
get to know the author and his propisitions
Propositions = answers to questions
Words, sentences, paragraphs
Words and terms - not a one to one
Find the sentences that puzzels you
find Propositions
State in your own words
exemplify it
Find arguement for the propsition
check for what is unsaid
Be critical to basic assumptions (tautologies)
The rule - understand
before critizise
Then you can:
agree
disagree
suspend judgement
Rule 10:
Critizising a book fairly
The reader has an obligation to talk back
has the last word
the most teachable reader
is the most critical
Doing rethorics
The writer
how to persuade
The reader
Rethoric builds on
grammar and logic
effecrtive and polite
in talking back
suspending judgement
Ignoring uninformed critique
truth,
not winning discussions
win only by
getting knowledge
disagreements
People can and will disagree
lack of knowledge
is curable
by instruction
You may be wrong
in your disagreements
from discussion to learning
what if you misunderstand?
Knowledge or mere opinion?
givingf reasions
Knowledge is
defendable opinions
The three maxim
s
you must understand before you criticise
WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY,
agreeing or disagreeing
Prejudice and judgement
We all have prejudices
read sympathetically
try to understand
Know your
predudices
Judging soundness
Lack pieces of knowledge
"You are uninformed"
Lack pieces of knowledge
"you are illogical"
"non-sequitur"
bad reasoning
facts incompatible
"you are misinformed"
relevant only if
conclisive
Judging completeness
=not solved the problems
Measure books by the
completeness of analysis
1. nivå - elementary
Finding what a book is about
Classicy
Kind and subject
state what the whole
book is about
Outline the parts
Define the problem
to be solved
Del 4 - the ultimate goal of reading
2. nivå
interpreting content
Key words
Important sentences
arguments
determine problems solved