Reading and Writing April

• Critical Reading


  Understanding that the text developed with certain context.
• A Text


  Neither nor read in a vacuum
• A Text


  Affected by a given circumstances
• Context of the Text


  Served as the backdrop of the text
• Context


  Circumstances that sorround the text.
• Hypertext


  Base partly on the context
• Hypertext


  Reading environment that is based on the internet
• Hypertext


  Displayed on a computer screen
• Because in general, humans learn better associatively


  Why use Hypertext?
• Intertext


  Express ideas and meanings
• Intertext


  Connection between language, images, characters, etc
• Intertext


  Modeling of text's meanings by another text
• Hypertext


  Nonlinear
• Hypertext


  information appears as links
• Intertext


  Author borrows and transform a prior text
• Reference


  Remark referring to something
• Metaphor


  Compares something
• Critical Reading


  Analytic activity, asking questions about the text
• Critical Reading


  Question the different arguments
• Maxine Rafaella C. Rodriguez and Marella Therese A. Tiongson


  Critical Reading as Reasoning by?
• Critical Reading


  Not meant to criticize
• Modals, Frequency Adverbs, and Probability Adverbs


  Different forms of Hedges
• May, could, would, should, might, certain, must


  Modals
• Usually, Generally, Commonly


  Frequency Adverbs
• Probably, Possibly, Presumbly


  Probability Adverbs
• Identifying Assertions


  Common types of assertion
• Formulating a Counterclaim


  Counterclaims are made to rebut previous claim
• Determining Evidence


  Evidence is the details