Check: Is it from an academic book?

This morning we left unsettled the question of exactly what the reading "Symbolic Systems and Meaning" is (Hartmann & Blass, 2007, pp. 12 - 16). Our final, but unchecked, idea was Neung's suggestion that it is from an academic book, which seemed fairly popular.

My question is whether or not we are happy with this answer. So, what do you think? As usual, when we are checking or questioning an idea, there are three different, more precise questions that we might want to answer:

1. Does it answer the question? 
2. Is it correct? 
3. Is it a good answer? 

And similarly to the important point that Law makes in the part of his introduction where he gives the important background information that are the three very different definitions of the word faith, the three more precise check questions above are independent. We often think that an answer is wrong, but still contains a good idea that we want to keep; for example, when we discussed the meaning of the word academic in the sentence: "A good academic questions everything," the first answer, that academic here means "concerned with higher education" is not correct, but it certainly has the right sort of idea. Conversely, an answer might be correct, but not a good answer. For example, if we say that the passage on pages 12 to 16 of Quest is from a book, that is certainly correct, but it's not a very good answer. It's too general: we want to know what sort of book it's from -  a novel, a children's school book, or what, exactly? And perhaps we want something else in addition. 

Thanks to your efforts this morning, we have a good starting point. But is it good enough? What do you think? Please share your ideas in comments below. And feel welcome to reply to the ideas of others. It is out of such discussion, practising important academic skills, that we can hopefully get a really good answer that we are happy with, and perhaps clarify a few other things in the process. 

• My original question: What is the Quest general interest reading "Symbolic Systems and Meanings"? 

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Reference

Hartmann, P. & Blass, L. (2007). Quest 3 Reading and Writing (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.