The Reader as Detective: Level C (Second Edition) (The Reader As Detective)

By: Burton Goodman

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Synopsis: This book has been specially designed to make you a more active reader--to help you become more involved in the reading process. Today, more than ever, this is important because TV and movies can affect our reading habits. They, and other mass media, sometimes tend to make us passive, less active readers. This is unfortunate because reading is an active, participatory experience. It is not merely viewing or watching. When you read a powerful story of detection, suspense, mystery, or action, you march along with the characters in search of the ending, or solution. You are--or should become-- The Reader as Detective. Reading is an adventure--one in which you have become involved. Furthermore, the greater your involvement, the better reader you will become--and the more you will enjoy and appreciate reading. This book will help make you The Reader as Detective in a number of ways. A good reader is like a good detective in another way. To succeed, the detective must be able to gain an overall impression of the case, to recognize clues, identify important details, put events in sequence, draw inferences, and distinguish fact from opinion. Similarly, the effective reader must be a reading detective--on the search for the main idea, for supporting details, clues, inferences, and so forth.