Outline: Attitudes to books and reading
In this section of the study guide, we will outline the three texts that cover the topic of books and reading. We will outline each text one at a time, emphasising important points for the topic you are dealing with.…
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Do you need to read books to be clever?
Denise Winterman begins her article by outlining statistics and explaining the population’s low interest in reading books:
When did you last pick up a book to hunt out a nugget of information instead of Googling it? (...) Some time ago, quite possibly, especially if you're a man and aged 16 to 24 - half haven…
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Learn the Question
The second text was written by Guillermo del Toro in 2011. The writer seeks to explain and outline readers’ fascination with books and reading.
The article begins with the author evoking what he was told by one of his teachers: he was told that books contained every possible answer for humanity. The rest of the article is Del Toro’s att…
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Boys and reading
The third text is part of an interview conducted by Lizzie Poulton and Jim Sells with boys aged 6 to 9. The purpose of the interview was to determine and analyse young boys’ reading habits.
The boys who are interviewed give different opinions when it comes to reading: “Sometimes it’s boring, sometimes it…
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