{"id":126,"date":"2007-10-10T04:32:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/10-guidelines-for-reading-non-fiction"},"modified":"2016-10-01T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T18:25:49","slug":"10-guidelines-for-reading-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/10-guidelines-for-reading-non-fiction","title":{"rendered":"10 Guidelines for Reading Non Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestudysmartsmorgasbord.blogspot.com\/\">The Study Smorgasborg<\/a> has reprinted a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/thestudysmartsmorgasbord.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/guidelines-for-getting-most-out-of-non.html\">10 guidelines for reading non fiction<\/a> by Paul Edwards of the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Guidelines include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Read the whole book.<\/li>\n<li>Decide how much time you will spend.<\/li>\n<li>Have a strategy.<\/li>\n<li>Read actively.<\/li>\n<li>Read it three times.<\/li>\n<li>Read the parts with the highest information content first.<\/li>\n<li>Mark the book.<\/li>\n<li>Know the author(s)<\/li>\n<li>Know the intellectual context.<\/li>\n<li>Use your unconscious mind.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>See the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/thestudysmartsmorgasbord.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/guidelines-for-getting-most-out-of-non.html\">The Study Smorgasborg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on how to read for self-improvement, download my free ebook, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/word\/download\/42543?extension=pdf\"><em>ROMAN Reading: 5 Practical Skills for Transforming Your Life Through Literature<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Study Smorgasborg has reprinted a set of 10 guidelines for reading non fiction by Paul Edwards of the University of Michigan. Guidelines include: Read the whole book. Decide how much time you will&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[242,244,243],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-non-fiction","tag-paul-edwards","tag-study-smorgasborg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-22","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}