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• Critical Reading


  Involves reader by asking questions about the text and the author's claim
• Reasoning


  • Act of giving statements for justification and explanation to defend something
  • The ability of your mind to think and understand things in a logical way to form a conclusion or judgment
• Argument


  Claims backed up by reasons
• Parts of Argument


  • Claim - stating what you want to prove your main point
  • Counterclaim - other side of argument, oppose
  • Reason - tells why, importance, back up your claim
  • Evidence - supports your reasons (facts)
• Implicit Text


  Indirect, understood but not clearly stated
• Explicit Text


  Direct, clearly stated
• Types of Claims


  • Claim of Fact - asserts existence of something based on facts and data
  • Claim of Value - assert a person's sense of values, his sense of right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust, beautiful and ugly
  • Claim of Policy - argues that certain condition should exist, action that needs to be done provide solution
• Characteristics of a good claim


  • Argumentative and debatable
  • Specific and focused
  • Interesting and engaging
  • Logical result from a reasonable weighing of support provided
• Context


  Surrounding conditions, circumstances or events that influence the meaning and interpretation of a text
• Intertextuality


  Modeling of a text's meaning by another text, connection between language, images, characters, theme
• Hypertextuality


  Presents multimedia approach to gaining information, connects topics on a screen
• Hypertext


  Words or pictures with multilinear, multi sequential, non linear links that allow the reader to interactively choose information
• Hypermedia


  Extension of hypertext, includes animation, sound, video
• Text is neither written nor read in a vacuum means it is not separated from outside events or influences
• Text is always influenced by a lot of things
• Meaning and interpretations are affected by a given set of circumstances
• Critical Reading


  Involves reader by asking questions about the text and the author's claim
• Reasoning


  Act of giving statements for justification and explanation to defend something
• Reasoning


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


  To assert something that can be a possible subject for contradiction
• Claim


  • A statement that is arguable or debatable
  • Used to defend our position in a particular topic
  • Debatable statements to defend one's position on issues
• Types of Claims


  • Claim of Fact
  • Claim of Value
  • Claim of Policy
• Claim of Fact


  • Asserts that something is true in the past, present or future
  • Aims at making readers believe your stand/position
  • Does not state exact fact instead it is a claim that your statement is a fact
  • Asserting that what you state is a fact
• Claim about the past


  • Something is true in the past because of someone or because of an incident
• Claim about the present


  • Something is true at the present
• Claim about the future


  • Something will be true in a specific time in the future
• Claim of Value


  • Focuses on asserting personal judgement or bias
  • Focuses on what is good or bad, what is best, etc. based on your personal choice or preference
• Claim of Policy


  • Aims to propose an action that can be a solution to a problem
  • Focuses on suggesting what must and must not be done