How To Read Literature Like A Professor By Thomas C. Foster

Being an expert in literature may seem like a rigorous task to complete, but when you put passion into the work anything is possible. In How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster it gives tips on how to analyze all types of reading like a expert. While learning how to be an expert in literature you possess skills along the way. In order to be an expert in literature you have to keep an open mind, practice, and know everything has a deeper meaning.
To be an expert in literature you want to keep an open mind no matter what kind of text you are reading. In How to Read Literature like a Professor Foster writes, “Don’t read only from your own fixed position...Instead try to find a reading perspective that allows for sympathy...that understands the text” (234). Foster wants people to find a different reading perspective that helps you to understand the reading. People need to not be influenced by their own beliefs they need to keep an open mind at all times so they do not ignore the real message the reading is trying to portray.

Foster writes, “The more we become aware of the possibility that our text is speaking to other texts, the more similarities and correspondences we begin to notice, and the more alive the text becomes” (29). People need to practice reading and analyzing texts so they can become more familiar with certain patterns in texts. Practicing is important because if you do not practice then you will not know how to recognize patterns in an efficient way. The author also says, “The more connect-the-dot drawings you do, the more likely you are to recognize the design early on...If you read enough and give what you read enough thought, you begin to see patterns, archetypes, recurrences” (24). Making connections is beneficial because you can always connect ideas to patterns. This will strengthen your reading skills and will make reading easier to