Contents

Cover

Title Page

What’s Going on Around Here?

Introduction: Why Critical Reading Matters

       1. The Structure of Nonfiction Information

       2. The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere

       3. The Power of the Prologue

       4. The Parts You Don’t Read

       5. It May Just Be Me, But . . .

       6. Source Code

       7. All in How You Look at Things

Traditional Nonfiction Sources

       8. Bringing the News

       9. Living the News

     10. From the Inside Out

     11. Life from the Inside

     12. That Is So Last Year

     13. On the Stump

     14. The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe

Emerging Media

     15. Reading Internet Sources

     16. Social (Media) Disease

Special Circumstances

     17. The Criminal Element

Conclusion: Looking for Certainty in an Uncertain Time

The Books in the Book

About the Author

Also by Thomas C. Foster

Copyright

About the Publisher