Book Review: Intensive Reading

Book Identity

Title: Intensive Reading 

Author: Otong Setiawan Djuharie 

Publisher: Yrama Widya 

Publication City: Bandung 

Year of Publication: 2019 

Page Count: 216 pages 

ISBN: 978-623-205-002-0 

Book Synopsis

The book Intensive Reading is designed to assist students in understanding the fundamentals of reading in English. It emphasizes reading techniques from the bottom up, meaning that readers are encouraged to understand each word and sentence in detail before grasping the entire text. The book presents how to comprehend words, phrases, sentences, cohesive markers, the meaning conveyed by grammatical structures, and everything related to extracting information from the text. The purpose of this book is to help readers focus on detailed text comprehension, train their analytical skills, and improve vocabulary and grammar through reading activities. Additionally, the book offers systematically structured material, starting from the basics of reading, understanding words, phrases, sentences, grammatical meaning, punctuation, and cohesion markers.

Book Strengths

The book uses language that is easy to understand and incorporates both Indonesian and English consistently in both explanations and examples. This allows readers to better comprehend the meaning of a text comprehensively. It provides effective reading strategies, such as skimming and scanning, to quickly and accurately extract information. The book also offers a variety of material comprehension tests to deepen the reader's understanding.

Book Weaknesses

There are technical words or terms that may be difficult for some students to understand, so a dictionary is often needed as a companion for better comprehension.

Conclusion

The book Intensive Reading not only covers reading theory but also includes understanding words, phrases, sentences, grammatical structures, and cohesion markers, which are the fundamental elements of a text. This book is highly recommended for students, especially those looking to improve their intensive reading skills in English.