READING AND WRITING (LESSON 6)

• Reasoning


  The ability of your mind to think and understand things in a logical way to form a conclusion or judgment
• Critical reading


  The process of making judgments in reading: evaluating relevancy and adequacy of what is read
• Critical reading steps


  1. Before you read: Scan and look for important information

  2. While you read: Interact with the author, take notes, highlight key points

  3. After you read: Revisit annotations, summarize the material

  4. Responding to the text: Evaluate and analyze the arguments, develop your own ideas
• Characteristics of critical readers

  • Spend time reflecting on the reading material
  • Evaluate and solve problems rather than simply compiling certain facts
  • Think logically
  • Seek out the truth
  • Eager to express their thoughts
  • Look at alternative views about a topic
  • Open to new ideas
  • Base their judgments on evidence
  • Recognize errors and good arguments
  • Willing to take on critical stance on issues
  • Ask pertinent questions
  • Willing to change their ideas whenever new set of information is introduced
  • See connections between topics and use knowledge from other disciplines to enhance their experiences
• Ways to become a critical reader

  • Annotate what you read- writing on the text
  • Outline the text- identify the main points
  • Summarize the text- Get the main gist or point of the text read
  • Evaluate the text- Question the purpose, intention, and assumptions. Check if there are pieces of evidence that are valid and credible
• “Reasoning is the ability of your

  mind to think and understand

  things in a logical way to form

  a conclusion or judgment”

  (Padilla, Mely M., et al, 2017)