The Joys Of Reading: Literature And

Literature and

The Joys of Reading

Reading is a Joy

Reading is  Information

Reading  

Is joy  Excites  Enlightens the mind  Generates new ideas  Opens new dimensions  Enriches the thought process 

We read….

The Written Word

Classification 

Fiction works of imagination novels, short-stories, essays, thrillers, occult, science-fiction, fantasy,

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Non-fiction based on reality, but may or may not be entirely accurate

Types of the Written Word            

Poetry and Prose Stories: True / Fantasy Biographies and Auto-biographies Historical accounts Text-books Self-help books Science, Philosophy and other specialized books Encyclopedias Letters, Essays, Articles, Papers, Reports Jokes, Riddles, Quizzes, Mind-bogglers Newspapers, magazines , pamphlets, billboards, etc Emails and other online communication!

English Literature 

Prose

Chaucer  Shakespeare  Enid Blyton  Hans Christian Anderson  H. G. Wells  Agatha Christie 

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Poetry

Milton  Byron  Pope  Gray  Keats  Kipling  Wordswoth 

Urdu Literature 

Prose

Pitras Bukhari  Deputy Nazeer Ahmed  Aleem ul Haq Haqqi  Mazhar Kaleem  Saadat Hasan Manto  Fatima Suraiya Bajia  Anwar Maqsood 

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Poetry

Mir Taqi Mir  Ghalib  Allama Iqbal  Ibn-e-Insha  Faiz Ahmed Faiz  Faraz  Sufi Tabassum 

Effective Reading Tips for Students Previewing: Look “around” the text before you start reading.  Annotating: “Dialogue” with yourself, the author, and the issues and ideas at stake.  Outline, summarize, analyze: take the information apart, look at its parts, and then try to put it back together again in language that is meaningful to you.  Look for repetitions and patterns.  Contextualize: After you’ve finished reading, put the reading in perspective. 

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Libraries Century

Chinguetti , Mauritania 13th

Comparison with Advanced nations

Statistics COUNTRY United States

RESEARCH SCIENTISTS ARTICLES WITH 40 OR MORE CITATIONS 466,211 10,481

India

29,509

31

NUMBER OF FREQUENTLY CITED PAPERS PER MILLION 42.99 PEOPLE 0.04

Australia

24,963

280

17.23

Switzerland

17,028

523

79.90

China

15,558

31

0.03

Israel

11,617

169

36.63

Egypt

3,782

1

0.02

Republic of Korea

2,255

5

0.12

Saudi Arabia

1,915

1

0.07

Kuwait

884

1

0.53

Algeria

362

1

0.01

Movies: an alternative to reading Great works have been adapted for the silverscreen and they are a treat to watch:  The Odyssey  Castaway  Gone with the Wind  Roots  Jurassic Park 

Sacred Duty 

1 Read: In the name of thy Lord Who createth, 2 Createth man from a clot. 3 Read: And thy Lord is the Most Bounteous,

4 Who teacheth by the pen, 5 Teacheth man that which he knew not. 

…..The Holy Quran: Ch 96, translation by M. Pickthall