How to efficiently select a block of text in iOS

I'm a relatively new iPad user who has brought his iPad into hospital. I'm frequently find iOS to be quirky. There are frequent times when I cannot select the specific phrase i want to capture. iOS guesses and almost always guesses way wrong, way, way too much. I'm startled that Apple has no tutorials on the iOS operating system itself. What am I missing?

If you don't have this already, you may find it somewhat helpful.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1595/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf
You can also download the user guide as a free book in the iBooks Store. You will need to download the free iBooks app if you haven't already done so in order to download the book.
Selecting text in iOS takes a little getting used to. It might help if you pinch out on the screen in order to enlarge the text and that makes it a little easier to refine the area that you are trying to select.
I forgot about this one. This might be helpful as well.
http://help.apple.com/ipad/7/

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