The best Literacy eBooks: Reddit reviews

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Ugh. I wish I had done college differently. I would have studied linguistics. Here’s another of my favorites: a good book

Patricia T. O’Connor’s Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English. I can’t speak to the new features of the fourth edition but the book itself is a great resource. And most importantly, it’s very readable. Highly recommend.

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and the reading list at the back is a good place to start.

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler covers when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. Plus there is a great reading list in the Appendix.

Excel.

Basic programming skills.

Read "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler. (mostly for nonfiction readers interested in making connections)

If you're a student, learning to use /r/Anki. It will probably change your life. It certainly changed mine.

Not really an easy answer to this. You can spend years studying it before you get any good. Trying to write beautiful prose for the sake of sounding smart without having anything of value to say will not work. You need to decide what you want to say first, then you work out how to say it.

This book is a good starting point.

It is kind-of real. The book has actually been out for a long time, but it's been updated recently.

Here's the link.

Alpha is formally defined as being relative to the appraisal of a social group. You can't learn to act alpha, members of your social group (implicitly) denote it instead thus that person becomes the leader of that group.

What is the point that you're making? That being "alpha" is just "acting" apart or different from others?

If so, I won't bother entertaining your naivety. Before you critique the opposition, come to an understanding first.

I'm feeling genuinely nice, so here's a start: How to read ~~a book~~ and understand prose by Mortimer J. Adler.