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Critical Reading

Critical reading involves carefully evaluating a text to understand the writer's perspective and forming your own opinion. It requires thinking critically by examining, reflecting on, analyzing, and evaluating the text, rather than just looking for faults. When reading critically in college, readers need to analyze how well an author fulfills their purpose and how their style shapes meaning. It's also important for critical readers to approach texts with healthy skepticism. To be a critical reader, one must ask questions, identify unsupported claims, differentiate facts from opinions, recognize logical flaws or biases, understand the text well enough to summarize it, and be flexible in their approach to different text types. Critical readers are active readers who ask questions, make connections, vary their reading pace, and

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Critical Reading

Critical reading involves carefully evaluating a text to understand the writer's perspective and forming your own opinion. It requires thinking critically by examining, reflecting on, analyzing, and evaluating the text, rather than just looking for faults. When reading critically in college, readers need to analyze how well an author fulfills their purpose and how their style shapes meaning. It's also important for critical readers to approach texts with healthy skepticism. To be a critical reader, one must ask questions, identify unsupported claims, differentiate facts from opinions, recognize logical flaws or biases, understand the text well enough to summarize it, and be flexible in their approach to different text types. Critical readers are active readers who ask questions, make connections, vary their reading pace, and

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Critical Reading*

Critical reading is reading to find out what a writer has to


say about a topic and, most importantly, what you think about
what the writer says.
Critical thinking activity is a course of thought or mental
process requiring intellect, logic, common sense, judgment, or
discernment. Notice that the critical in critical thinking does not
mean looking for fault or error but involving thoughtful
evaluation and judgment. When you think critically, you
examine, reflect, analyze, and evaluate.

Critical Reader
When you read in college, youll need to be a critical
reader, that is, a reader who uses critical thinking skills. Critical
readers have developed the ability to analyze a piece of
writing and to recognize how a writer fails or succeeds in
fulfilling his or her purpose in writing and to see how a
writers style helps shape meaning. Most importantly, a
critical reader knows to bring a healthy skepticism to the
text.

A critical reader
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Asks questions;
Recognizes unsubstantiated claims and generalizations;
Differentiates between fact and opinion;
Recognizes faulty logic, bias, or prejudice;
Understands content well enough to summarize or
paraphrase it;
6. Is flexible and has developed strategies for reading the
different kinds of texts he or she encounters in everyday
life and in academic disciplines, taking each one seriously,
and expecting to be challenged.
7.

*Gibson, Joanna. Perspectives: A Case Studies for Readers


and Writers. Longman, Inc. USA 2002.

8. Critical readers have to be active readers. They


1. Ask questions about the text they are reading, as if the
writer were present,
2. Make mental connections between the text they are
reading and other texts they have read,
3. Vary the pace of their reading according to the difficulty,
complexity, or familiarity of the text, and
4. Focus on the text, blocking potential distractions.
9.
10.

11.

ACTIVITIES THAT WILL HELP YOU


BECOME AN ACTIVE READER

12.
1. Previewinginvolves scanning the text and noting such
matters as the title and any information about the author;
date of publication and publisher; format, font size, length;
length of chapters and paragraphs; use of white space;
pictures, figures, and graphs; headings; documentation;
content, its complexity, familiarity, andof course
interest.
13.
2. Annotatingthink of annotating as creating a one-sided
conversation with a text. When you annotate, you make
brief notes in the margins
a. Identifying the main ideas the writer is trying to
develop;
b. Reacting to ideas you agree or disagree with;
c. Marking passages that helped you understand a
concept or idea;
d. Circling key words or terms that are new to you;
e. Posing questions you had while reading; and
f. Marking any points that are confusing, unclear, or
unsubstantiated.
14.
3. Discussing your readingby articulating what you know
and understand about your reading, you may discover new
ideas on your own, or your listener may pose questions or
offer comments that advance new ideas. The important
point is that reading should be an activity that engages you
with the writers ideas or arguments and that prepares you
to engage other peoplelisteners or readerswith your

ideas. Finally, when you discuss what you have read with
someone else, you may find yourself explaining why you
react to a piece of writing. As you articulate why a piece of
writing has a certain effect on you, you begin analysis of
the reading.
Active reading is the basis of critical
reading. Previewing, annotating, and discussing are
essentially strategies used in active reading. They
are the relevant basics of active reading.
15.

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