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The document discusses critical reading and provides guidance on how to approach a text critically. It defines critical reading as actively engaging with text by asking questions, making connections between ideas, and not taking information at face value. A critical reader can distinguish between explicit information clearly stated in the text and implicit ideas that are merely suggested. The document also defines what constitutes a good claim, noting it should be argumentable, focused, interesting and logical.

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Text and Context

The document discusses critical reading and provides guidance on how to approach a text critically. It defines critical reading as actively engaging with text by asking questions, making connections between ideas, and not taking information at face value. A critical reader can distinguish between explicit information clearly stated in the text and implicit ideas that are merely suggested. The document also defines what constitutes a good claim, noting it should be argumentable, focused, interesting and logical.

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TEXT AND CONTEXT

CONNECTIONS
A. Critical Approach to Reading
• Readers should always bear in mind that no test, however well-written and authoritative, contains its
own predetermined meaning. Everything is subject to the reader’s own interpretation, understanding, and
acceptance of the text material.
• To be a critical reader, one should interact with the material being read. Look for the connections
between the texts. Ask questions; and then, respond to the questions; or expand the ideas by giving more
examples.
• To create meaning for the text read, use a variety of approaches, strategies, and techniques to connect
to the presentation of the text.

  Whenever you read something and you evaluate claims, seek definitions, judge information,
demand proof, and question assumptions, you are thinking critically .
  It means not taking anything at face value. It is watching out for the author’s limitations,
omissions, oversights, and arguments in the text.
  It is a skill that goes beyond the reading of the written text. The reader takes an effort to create
images and pictorial concepts through his sense impressions of the words written by the author.

Critical Reading
Defining explicit and implicit information
Critical reading also means that you are able to distinguish the information that is clearly stated (explicit)
in the text from the ideas that are suggested (implicit). This will help you make inferences about what you
read.
Defining Claim
The claim is the most important part of the text. The quality and complexity of the reading depend on the
claim because the claim defines the paper’s direction and scope. The claim is a sentence that
summarizes the most important thing that the writer wants to say as a result of his/her thinking, reading,
or writing.
Characteristics of a good claim
A. A claim should be argumentable and debatable
B. A claim should be focused and specific
C. A claim should be interesting and Engaging
D. A claim should be logical

Critical Ways of Thinking

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