How to Use Reference Books (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book How to Use Reference Books (Classic Reprint) written by Leon O. Wiswell and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How to Use Reference Books Skill in getting information from books is so necessary to a student that no school meets its full obligation if it does not early give systematic training in the use of a good library, and particularly in the art of consulting the more common works of reference. It has been too frequently assumed that little or no skill beyond the mere ability to read is required. This is a mistake. Centuries of time, in the aggregate, have been wasted by young students in awkward and only partially successful efforts to do it. The fact that these works are often of great size, are filled with technical devices, are complicated in some particulars, and so are really difficult for inexperienced persons to use, is too generally ignored, with the result that the books are voluntarily used far less than they should be, in school and out. The aim in this book has been to offer practical assistance of an elementary character to the great body of teachers and parent who have had no special training for this duty. For this reason considerable attention has been devoted to the use of the dictionary, which is at once the most important reference work and the most common. It is suggested that some course of this general character be given to all prospective teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.