Logical text analysis is the skill of finding its main meanings in the most confusing text (or discovering that there is no meaning in the text), restoring the logic of the written text and the logic of the thinking of the author who wrote the text.
Scope — scientific and popular science texts How to read fiction — a separate conversation, see →
When the author writes something, he himself has not always figured out what he wants to say. But he writes. The task of the reader in this case is to understand what the author would write if he understood his own thoughts.
The higher the clarity of the writer’s thinking, the more meaningful, clear and logically structured texts he writes. The better your LAT (logical text analysis) skill is worked out, the better and faster you understand texts. And not only in written texts, but also in oral ones — you begin to better understand what the people you are talking to want to tell you.
Result-Oriented Reading
We often tend to read for the sake of the process of reading: we are used to the fact that reading is in itself good and healthy. Whether there will be a result or not is the second question. We propose to learn to look at reading differently, from a result point of view. See →
Levels of text comprehension
The text can be understood at different levels. The three main levels of understanding are the ability to present (I don’t know to know, but I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you), the level of working understanding (I understand everything basic, but in general terms) and deep understanding (I understand in the smallest details). See →
Logical text analysis — implies a deep understanding of the text, which consists of the following steps:
- Highlighting the main blocks of the text structure.
- Selection of logical building blocks of the text (themes and rhemes).
- Drawing of available themes — how, what and what is connected with.
- If something turned out to be unrelated, you need to connect it; if something is missing, think about it.
- The final drawing of the text is the most compact and understandable scheme of the text (mind map)
Selective reading
Logical text analysis in a serious version is a rather time-consuming thing. In order for you to have time to understand the texts deeply, you have to read the texts selectively: only what is really necessary.
Before you understand which book to read thoughtfully, you need to get acquainted with different books in order to be able to make a choice. 5 to 15 minutes per book is a reasonable amount of time. See →
Presentations
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