Rigorous readers, in turn, develop into strong writers.
By juxtaposing classic literature with contemporary literature, film, and television, I hoped to help students connect with the literature in specific, personal ways that would help them become rigorous readers.
His method of reading, he said, enables us "to come closer to being as rigorous a reader as the author had to be in order to write the sentence in the first place".
Have you already been reading math books that are organized in terms of abstract definitions and formal theorems and rigorous proofs, where the reader is expected to construct examples and counterexamples independently and the problems are about proving further abstract statements using the theorems and definitions from the chapter?
Amalia Kessler addresses this lacuna with Inventing American Exceptionalism, an eloquent and insightful work that offers readers a rigorous reinterpretation of America's legal past and yields a long overdue exposition of the historical origins of America's adversarial civil legal culture.
In recent years, literature's capacity to generate in its readers "a rigorous scrutiny of everything they believe in and live by" 2 —what Stanley Fish calls its "dialectical" potential has drawn the attention of a number of liberal-democratic theorists, most notably Martha Nussbaum and Richard Rorty.
To their credit, the framers of Striving Readers required rigorous third-party evaluations of whatever the states implemented, and those were the reports I was reading.
Without Mr. Porter to inspire and encourage me about world history and books, I certainly wouldn't be as voracious a reader or as rigorous a thinker as I am today.
For a fuller explanation of uncertainties and how to develop rigorous uncertainty 'budgets' the interested reader is referred to reference [ 18].
Written for those who are familiar with the basic strategies of analytic epidemiology, This fourth edition takes readers through a rigorous discussion of key epidemiologic concepts and methods such as study design, measures of association, research assessment, and more.
