Table of Contents: PREVIEW: HOW THIS BOOK CAN HELP YOU
PART ONE: Chapters 1-3
How to Read with a Purpose
PART TWO: Chapters 4-10
How to React to Changing Levels of Meaning
PART THREE: Chapters 11-17
How to Recognize the Author’s Pattern of Thinking
PART FOUR: Chapters 18-23
How to Think Along with an Author in the Pattern He
Sets Up
PART FIVE: Chapters 24-28
How to Skim Successfully by Following an Author’s Pat tern of Thinking
PART SIX: Chapters 29–32
How to Read for Pleasure and Profit
“About the end of the book” This book aims at all times to be functional-short on theory, long on practice. There are a number of things you can expect from it. Not every person who reads it will accomplish everthing the book demands, but in general these are the important effects you may, and should, look for early in your work:
A feeling of greater courage in approching new material. The ability to “get into” books or other reading matter more quickly, more happily. Less distraction from outside influence while you are reading. Greater awareness of an author’s deeper meaning. Sharper understanding of the all-over pattern of a piece of work, of whatever length, A sense of deeper involment in the content of what you are reading. A fuller comprehension of both the author’s purpose in writing and your own purpose in reading what he has written. The capacity to stay with a work for longer periods of time, to respond to it on a deeper level than heretofore, to understand it more clearly and more quickly, to retain it longer, to recall it more accurately. An all-encompassing sense of greater accomplishment in most reading situations.
