Critical thinking

• Critical reading involves scrutinizing any information that you read or hear.
• Critical thinking on the other hand, is the ability to think clearly and rationally, and the ability to understand the relation of ideas presented
• Logical Fallacies - are errors in reasoning that invalidate an argument. As a critical reader, you have to identify and examine fallacies and manipulative language found in the text.
• Annotating - It is the first strategy that you can use as a critical reader.
• Annotating

  It is underlining or highlighting the important ideas or points in a text like thesis statement, topic sentence, supporting details,
• Contextual Reading In contextual reading, a reader studies the author of the text, the time or period when the author wrote it and the important events that occurred during the time the text was written. 
• Outlining. It’s an overview of a document in which information and ideas are arranged according to hierarchy-the main idea being at the top followed by the rest of the supporting ideas or subtopics
• Summarizing -It’s the condensing or writing of a material in the reader’s own words.
• Paraphrasing -One way of understanding a text better is to paraphrase it.
• Paraphrasing- is putting or writing a text in your own words but maintaining the original information as given by the auth
• Comparing and Contrasting-It’s naming the similarities of two or more ideas or information.
• Evaluating an Argument- A critical reader must not accept anything on face value; instead, he or she must evaluate whether the claim or the argument
• CRITICAL READING

  CRITICAL THINKING

  LOGICAL FALLACIES

  ANNOTATING

  CONTEXTUAL READING

  OUTLINING

  SUMMARIZING

  PARAPHRASING

  COMPARING AND CONTRASTING

  EVALUATING AN ARGUMENT