The 3-pass method seems to roughly correspond the Adler's[1] technique for reading a book. The first pass is the systematic skimming of the inspectional level,

The 3-pass method seems to roughly correspond the Adler's[1] technique for reading a book. The first pass is the systematic skimming of the inspectional level, the second pass corresponds to the analytical level, and the final pass of evaluating the arguments and ideas corresponds to his syntopical level. 1 Adler, Mortimer Jerome, and Charles Van Doren. 1972. How to Read a Book. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Simon and Schuster.