Chapter 6
A comprehensive reader is a person who can engage with drawings or text in detail and see different meanings and interpretations.
Only a minority of people are comfortable with reading extended texts. Your ability to acquire information from documents may mark you as a valuable information source. Therefore, it’s wise to develop the skill of reading comprehensively so that you don’t lead others astray.
In essence, reading is no different from the other principal modes of perception: seeing and listening. Comprehensive reading depends not only on perceiving the actual words that are written on the page but also on the prior beliefs that we have to begin with. Our perception depends on these prior beliefs, but at the ...
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