It is my sincere wish that all of you do well on this first test. So, I want to tell you--maybe you are already doing this--that as an "expert" reader in my field, what I find myself doing as I approach each new section is flipping through all of the previous sections from the beginning of the book and reacquainting myself prior to each new section with all of the details from those previous. Names, dates, events, structure, golden lines. For example, I flip to page p. 25 and the name Matthew Neely leaps out at me, and I have to think to myself, "Who is that again? Oh, yeah, he's the senator who proposed the 5 million dollar reward for the arrest of cancer further personifying cancer and playing into Mukherfee's idea of the 'biography'." Or , I flip to p.11 and remember that Farber began this journey as a pathologist with all his jars and specimens. Or I flip to p. 26 and I remember the detrimental effect that WWII had on the newly established National Cancer Institute. I am always reviewing what I read. That is what good readers do. The more times a reader revisits an idea, the more likely it is to be integrated into the reader's schema.
Just sayin'.
It's up to you.
Peace.
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