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Section 1: Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonaction Information" through Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Foster, Thomas C. How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between. HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. Paperback.

• Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonaction Information," begins with the subtitle "How We Find Out What We're Reading." Foster discusses the "hook," the introductory section of longform nonfiction. He notes that the first job of the writer is to keep readers engaged and continuing to read, to "buy a little space to lay out the essentials of the work to follow" (9).

• Foster says that writers achieve this with the "four Ps" (10): problem, promise, program, and platform.

• "Problem" is the justification for writing, the laying out of the need for the piece of writing to exist.

• "Promise...

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