That boring reading book, Ch 8: Coming to "Terms"

 You need to make sure you understand the words the author uses (i.e. jargon/technical language), and the way they're used (i.e. words with multiple meanings). That's it, that's the whole chapter. This book would be a lot better if it was about 1/10th as long.

Adler uses newspapers as an example of something that's easy to read. I feel like I see this example a lot in older texts, and I always find it an odd one. Based on what I've read, newspapers in the first half the twentieth century (when this book was written) were often written at a college level. This dropped into the second half, but it's still often floating around high school (and seems to be slowly creeping back up in many cases). Compared to best selling books, which generally hit middle school.  Weird.