Explain critical reading as reasoning.

Cards (13)

  • Critical reading - is engaging in analytic activity which involves the reader by asking questions about the text and the author’s claim.
  • Critical readers - are doing the process of evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting the assertion of the hidden meaning of the entire text.
  • Reasoning as defined in Merriam-Webster dictionary, is an act of giving statements for justification and explanation.
  • Techniques Used in Critical Reading as Reasoning
    Identifying assertions and Formulating a counterclaim
  • Identifying assertions Identify by a common type of assertion such as fact, convention, opinion, and preference.
  • Formulating a counterclaim Counterclaims are made to rebut a previous claim.
  • it is needed that you use hedges, which are words or phrases that give a courteous tone
  • Different forms of hedges
    Modals, Frequency adverbs, Probability adverbs
  • Modals: may, could, would, should, might, certain, must, etc.
  • Frequency adverbs: usually, generally, commonly
  • Probability adverbs: probably, possibly, presumably
  • evaluative statement is a way of giving a better explanation to show the strength and weaknesses of something through writing.
  • Criteria - a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.