Khalifa and Weir's expeditious reading operations (skimming, scanning, search reading) for understanding the gist and specific details of interest might also be included to some extent because they might become important as the amount of reading increases and the purpose of reading diverse toward the graduate level work.
Here's the gist:... Read the rest of this column by clicking here Mark Morford is the author of The Daring Spectacle: Adventures in Deviant Journalism, a mega-collection of his finest columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.
That being said, if you follow his advice, you could probably get the gist of the book from reading the first three chapters.
You could probably get the gist of the book just by reading a Wikipedia page.
Most of the word meanings we know are acquired indirectly, by intuitively guessing new meanings as we understand the overall gist of what we are hearing or reading.
Clearly the key is to make sure that from kindergarten on, every student, from the start, understands the gist of what is heard or read.
A young soldier was expounding to a comrade the gist of a story he had read in Time about Trappist monks-how they, or a particular group of them, get up at two in the morning and work until seven in the evening, never shave, sleep on wooden planks, have no conversation with their fellows, and subsist on bread, fruit, and soybean coffee.
So here's the gist of it, as I just read in this week's Wrestling Observer: EA Sports doesn't like to be number two in anything.
("He associated Plato," noted a historian, "ever after, with the smell of wool").44 Even though he thought there were too many books to be read, and thought readers should share their findings by reporting to one another the gist of their studies, Emerson believed that reading a book was a private and solitary business.
You can get the gist of the anti-refugee event by reading the flyers circulated for it on Facebook, many of which look and read like a sort of fan-fic lovechild of Lord of the Rings and Mein Kampf.
I read M. Beck the gist of your telegram.
