Critical reading is not taking anything at face value. It is watching out for the author'slimitations, omissions, oversights, and arguments in the text.
Critical reading goes beyond the reading of the written text. The reader takes an effort to create images and pictorial concepts through his sense impressions of the words written by the author.
Readers should always bear in mind that no text contains its own predetermined meaning. Everything is subject to the reader's own interpretation, understanding, and acceptance
Readers should interact with the material being read. Look for connections, ask questions, respond, and expand ideas
Use a variety of approaches, strategies, and techniques to connect to the presentation of the text
The most important part of the text. It summarizes the most important thing the writer wants to say as a result of their thinking, reading, or writing.
The social, cultural, political, historical, and other related circumstances that surround the text and form the terms from which it can be better understood and evaluated