How long does it take to read Ways of Reading?
David Bartholomae, Anthony Petrosky
Ways of Reading by David Bartholomae, Anthony Petrosky takes about 14 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 768 pages, about 211,200 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A book of stories and essays by famous writers with comprehensive suggestions for in depth assignment topics for students. Authors included are Saul Bellow, John Berger, Raymond Carver, Robert Coles, Thomas Cottle, Stephen Klineberg, Annie Dillard, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Fish, Paulo Freire, Sigmund Freud, Clifford Geertz, Thomas Kuhn, Joyce Carol Oates, Walker Percy, Adrienne Rich, Richard Rodriguez, John Ruskin, Gloria Steinem, Studs Terkel, Alice Walker and John Edgar Wideman.
Subjects: Authorship, Problems, exercises, Reading, Report writing, Rhetoric, Writing
