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

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The work How to read nonfiction like a professor : a smart, irreverent guide to biography, history, journalism, blogs, and everything in between represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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

Title remainder

a smart, irreverent guide to biography, history, journalism, blogs, and everything in between

Statement of responsibility

Thomas C. Foster

Creator

• Foster, Thomas C

Author

• Foster, Thomas C

Subject

• Criticism
• Information literacy
• Books and reading
• Literature -- History and criticism
• Literature -- Explication
• Critical thinking

Language

eng

Summary

"On bookstore [and library] 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. After laying out general principles of reading nonfiction, [this book] offers advice for specific reading strategies in various genres from histories and biographies to science and technology to social media. Throughout, the emphasis will be on understanding writers' biases, interrogating claims, analyzing arguments, remaining wary of broad assertions and easy answers, and thinking critically about the written and spoken materials readers encounter"--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

CGP

Dewey number

028.7

Index

no index present

LC call number

ZA3075

LC item number

.F68 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography