Writing and reading

• Critical Reading


  A more ACTIVE way of reading that is a deeper and more complex engagement with a text, involving analyzing, interpreting and evaluating the larger meaning of a text and how those meanings are created by the text

  
• Critical Thinking


  A technique for evaluating information and ideas, for deciding what to accept and believe
• Reasoning


  An act of giving statements for justification and explanation, the ability to defend something by giving out reasons
• Stages of Critical Thinking Development


  • Unreflective thinker
  • Challenged Thinker
  • Beginning Thinker
  • The Practicing Thinker
  • Advanced Thinker
  • Accomplished Thinker
• Attitudes of a College-level Critical Thinker


  • Truth-seeking
  • Open-minded
  • Analytical
  • Systematic
  • Self-confident
  • Inquisitive
  • Mature
• You are thinking critically when you do not rest on accepting the message of the text but coining it in your personal experiences and perspectives to help you formulate logical and right assertions
• After critically reading a piece you should be able to take notes, paraphrase-in your own words-the key points
• This means that you should be able to analyze the text and state the meaning of the text
• The reader really is challenged to reason out and justify the actions, thoughts, and ideas if the skill of critical reading and thinking is developed
• The art of reasoning as offshoot of critical reading and thinking will be next to be accomplished
• Evidence


  Anything used to support the validity of the assertions, including testimony, scientific findings, statistics, physical objects, and many more
• Critical Reading Strategies


  • Annotating
  • Contextualizing
  • Reflecting
  • Paraphrasing
  • Outlining
  • Summarizing
  • Exploring the figurative language
  • Evaluating the logic of argument