How to read a book - what are in the chapter 1.

1. How to read a book
Chapter 01
정리자: 김나솔

2. This book is for those
•Whose main purpose in reading booksis to gain increased understanding. (not only information or facts)

3. All reading is active.
•Reading is an activity
•Therefore, all reading is active.
•Reading can be more active or less active.
•Reading can not be completely passive.
•Metaphor of a baseball game.
•Pitcher –ball –catcher
•Writer -book -reader

4. The art of catching/reading
•The art of catching a ball isto catch every kind of pitch.
•The art of reading a book isto catch every sort of communication as well as possible.

5. A book is a complex object.
•I t can be received more completely or less completely.
•The mount the reader catchesdepend on the amount of activity he puts into the process.

6. Success occurs when…
•The pitcher and catcher cooperate.
•Successful communication occurs when the writer’s skill and the reader’s skill converge upon a common goal.
•Writers vary: some are good, other are not.
•Readers also need some ‘skills’

7. A person reads better
•When he reads it moreactively.
•When he performs the involved acts more skillfully.

8. Reading is a complex activity.
•It consists of many separate acts.
•All the acts must be performed in a good reading.

9. Two possible relations
•Between your mind and the book.
–You understand the book perfectly.
–(doesn’t lead to increased undersatnding)
–You don’t understand the book perfectly.
•You get help from other people or books.
–(doesn’t lead to increased understanding)
•You do nothing.
–(doesn’t lead to increased understanding)
•You do the required job of reading
–(leads to increased understanding)

10. Two meanings of reading
•Reading for information
–When we first read, we understand easily.
–We get information or facts from reading.
–This increases our store of information.
–Our level of understanding is the same as before.
•Reading for understanding
–When we first read, we don’t understand the book completely.
–This throws a new light on all the facts we already know.
–Our level of understanding goes up.

11. Reading for understanding is possible when…
•The book has something that can increase the readers’ understanding.
•The readers are able to understand.

12. To read for understanding
•We need to know
–Who they are(those who have something that can increase our understanding)
–How to learn from them(how to receive what they conveyed) (= how to read)

13. Three goals of reading
•For information
–Much easier than for understanding
•For understanding
–Main focus of this book!
•For entertainment
–Different kind

14. Now, let’s think about learning

15. Two kinds of learning
•To be informed
–To know that something is the case. 무언가가그러하다는것을아는것.
•To be enlightened <-We’ll take this one
–To know that something is the case.
–To know why it is the case.
–To know what is connections are with other facts.
–To know in what respects it is the same
–To know in what respects it is different.
–Etc.

16. Two ways of learning
By discovery
•Unaideddiscovery
•Learn from nature, world
•Reading nature
By instruction
•Aideddiscovery
•Learn from discourse–speech, or writing
•Reading booksActive!
Need thinking! Active!
Need thinking!

17. The kinds of thinking that are needed for bothlearning
•Keenness of observation
•Readily available memory
•Range of imagination
•Intellect trained in analysis and reflection
•By discovery-withhelp
•By instruction-withouthelp

18. Thank you 