rws week 7

• Critical reading


  Goes beyond passively understanding a text
• Effective reading


  Deeper, more analytical sort of engagement with text, forming links, understanding opinions and real life application
• Critical thinking


  Thinking and analyzing
• Techniques to develop critical reading skills

  • Know what you're looking for
  • Annotating the text
  • Outlining the text
  • Summarizing the text
  • Questioning the text
• Techniques to develop critical reading skills

  • Scan the reading material
  • Make notes on what you are reading
  • Enter a dialogue with the author
  • Plot the thesis statement, claims, and evidence
  • Recognize and differentiate major and minor points
  • Be skeptical of points or information that did not meet your expectations or are not aligned with your personal views
• Features of critical thinking

  • Reasoning
  • Self-awareness
  • Open-mindedness
• Reasoning


  Rely on reason, not on emotions and opinions, search and ask for explanation
• Self-awareness


  Recognize own opinion, bias, and point of view, don't be swayed by author's view point
• Open-mindedness


  Be open to alternative interpretations, adding or detaching from your belief
• Types of information


  • Explicit
  • Implicit
• Explicit information


  Directly and clearly stated in the text
• Implicit information


  Indirectly expressed in the text
• Claim


  Asserts something to be true, tries to prove a point by giving details, evidences, etc.
• Characteristics of a claim

  • Argumentative
  • Debatable
  • Specific and focused
  • Interesting, engaging, and logical
• Types of claims


  • Claim of fact
  • Claim of policy
  • Claim of value
• Claim of fact


  Asserts the existence of something based on facts & data, reports, describes predicts, make causal claims
• Claim of fact


  • Reading newspapers gives a debater an advantage in supporting a claim on current events
  • Today, many people use the Internet as their main source of entertainment and socialization
• Claims of fact don't always express true sentences, it may be true based on author's POV
• Claim of policy


  Argument where actions should be carried out, claim of solution, action to be done or a solution to be taken
• Claim of policy


  • Marijuana should not be legalised because many will abuse it
  • Gender equality should be supported by every Filipino
• Claim of value


  Beyond facts and policies, claim of judgment, morality, belief, ethics, or philosophy
• Claim of value


  • Animal testing is the worst way to check medical products
  • Abortion is immoral
• Other contexts in which texts are developed

  • Intertextuality
  • Hypertext
  • Hypermedia
• Intertextuality


  Gain layers of meaning through citation and referencing of other texts
• Hypertext


  Non-linear way to present information, accomplished using links
• Hypermedia


  Incorporate other forms of multimedia, such as pictures, sounds, video, etc.