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How to synthesize information from multiple books
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Syntopical Reading
Syntopical reading is the most demanding level of reading, where we might examine multiple books on a subject in order to compare and contrast them. While the goal of analytical reading is about understanding one particular book, syntopical reading is about understanding the breadth of a field or subject area. This stage of reading involves identifying relevant sections of different books, understanding the questions the authors are asking, and critically assessing the views and arguments and how they relate to each other.
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Elementary Reading
The most basic level of reading is called elementary reading. As you might guess, this is the sort of reading that we learn in elementary school. Although we learn the basics of reading in elementary school, this is the most fundamental sort of reading and sometimes we have to add to our skill in...
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Inspectional Reading
The next stage of reading is called inspectional reading. At this point, we are reading through a book in order to see what it is and judge whether or not we should spend more time with it. There are two types of inspectional reading:
- Systematic skimming
- Superficial reading
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Analytical Reading
Once we know the basics about some reading material, we might judge that we need to spend more time with it in order to understand it better. This stage of reading is called analytical reading. During the analytical reading stage, we might assess the author’s arguments, study the narrative, or as...
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By understanding the different sorts of reading, you can be a more demanding reader and acquire more knowledge in less time. Mortimer Adler asks that you keep four questions in mind in order to be a demanding reader:
- What is this...
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Types of Reading
The way we read a book, article, or paper changes depending on our goals and our skills. It’s useful to think about how we are reading in order to make sure we spend our time and energy in the most effective way. In How to Read a Book, the philosopher Mortimer Adler gives us 4 types of r...
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Syntopical Reading
Syntopical Reading involves reading many books on the same subject and comparing and contrasting ideas, vocabulary, and arguments.
This task is undertaken by identifying relevant passages, translating the terminology, framing and ordering the questions that need answering, defining the issu...
The Four Levels of Reading
Mortimer Adler literally wrote the book on reading. Adler identifies four levels of reading:
- Elementary Reading
- Inspectional Reading
- Analytical Reading
- Syntopical Reading
They are thought of as levels because you can’t move to a higher level without ...
Just Read It
Superficial reading is the first step towards analytical reading – that is, understanding and interpreting a book’s contents. If you stop and go over everything you don’t understand on your first reading, you get lost. Sure you finish the book but you’ve lost sight of where you’ve been and where ...
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