Literature
History
Philosophy
Science & Math
Social Sciences
100
Imaginative literature primarily ______ rather than teaches.
What is "pleases"?
100
The essence of history is ______.
What is "narrative"?
100
Philosophy, according to Aristotle, begins in _____.
What is wonder?
100
"Until approximately the end of the _____ century, the major scientific books were written for a lay audience."
What is the "nineteenth" century?
100
Anthropology, economics, politics, sociology, and psychology make up this branch of disciplines.
What is social sciences?
200
Verisimilitude is the essential element of _____ in any work of literature.
What is "truth"?
200
"It is necessary to read more than one account of the history of an event or period if we want to understand it."
What is the first rule of reading history?
200
A key area of questions in philosophy.
What is speculative, or theoretical?
200
One of the fastest growing academic disciplines.
What is the history of science?
200
"The jargon and metaphors of much social science writing [. . .] make for deceptively ____ reading."
What is "easy"?
300
The unity of a story is always in its _____.
What is "plot"?
300
A good historian must combine the talents of the storyteller and the _______.
What is scientist?
300
Practical or normative questions.
What is the other branch of questions in philosophy?
300
The _________ argument is characteristic of science.
What is "inductive"?
300
Social science writing mixes several different types of writing. Name one.
What are science, philosophy, history, and fiction?
400
You should always do this to a work of literature before beginning to analyze it.
What is read it all the way through?
400
A narrative account of a life, a history, of a man or woman or group of people.
What is a biography?
400
Style of philosophical method favored by Plato.
What is the dialogue?
400
"________ is a language, and we can learn it like any other, including our own."
What is "mathematics"?
400
The first step of analytical reading asks this question, very important for social science writing.
What is "what kind of book is this?"
500
Probably the least read but most honored works of literature in the Western world are these.
What are epics?
500
The most important thing to know, when reading any report of current events.
What is who is writing it?
500
The two kinds of theology are natural and ______.
What is "dogmatic"?
500
When reading a scientific book with complex mathematics in it, you can do this without losing your ability to understand the science.
What is skip past the math?
500
It is customary when reading social science books to do this.
What is read several books on the subject (read syntopically)?
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