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How to read nonfiction like a professor : a smart, irreverent guide to biography, history, journalism, blogs, and everything in between /

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 d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foster, Thomas C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial, [2020].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Information literacy.
Books and reading.
Literature > Explication.
Literature > History and criticism.
Critical thinking.
Criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • What's going on around here?
  • Introduction: why critical reading matters
  • The structure of nonfiction information
  • The ecology of the nonfiction biosphere
  • The power of the prologue
  • The parts you don't read
  • It may just be me, but...
  • Source code
  • All in how you look at things
  • Bringing the news
  • Living the news
  • From the inside out
  • Life from the inside
  • That is so last year
  • On the stump
  • The universe of ideas/ideas of the universe
  • Reading internet sources
  • Social (media) disease
  • The criminal element
  • Conclusion: looking for certainty in an uncertain time.