How Long to Read How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 difficult to know which information to trust. Fake news is rampant in mass media, stoked by foreign powers wishing to disrupt a democratic society. We need to be more perceptive, more critical, and more judicious readers. The future of our republic may depend on it. How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is more careful, more attentive, more aware reading. On bookstore 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, How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor 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. We can become better citizens through better reading, and the time for that is now.

How long is How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor?

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor aloud.

What Reading Level is How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor?

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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