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Problem: I can do the exercises you set but can’t do it from a newspaper.
Solution: I won’t deny that the exercises I set in class and in this book are cherry
picked  to  make  it  easy  to  explain  the  process.  In  class,  I  get  you  to  focus  on
specific articles whereas when you are faced with a whole newspaper it’s easy to
get  distracted  and  just  flick  through  and  give  things  a  cursory  reading.  This
method  works  best  when  you  have  time  and  patience  (I  find  I  always  have  the
time  and  patience  when  I’m  being  paid  and  on  a  deadline!)  When  I  do  it,  I
choose my subject. Then I buy different newspapers than normal in order to get
the right one for the subject, I ignore all other articles and focus in on any word
or phrase that might take me elsewhere. When I do this in class (I often ask the
class  to  throw  me  a  subject  to  do  while  they’re  doing  their  work)  I  mimic  this
process to good effect to make sure it still works - and it does.