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Critical Thinking Through Reading

Critical Thinking Through Reading. Adapted from The College Writer’s Handbook. What is Critical Thinking?. The process of examining ideas and drawing conclusions based on evidence and observation. Read Systematically: Read Actively: Read Critically:.

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Critical Thinking Through Reading

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  1. Critical Thinking Through Reading Adapted from The College Writer’s Handbook

  2. What is Critical Thinking? • The process of examining ideas and drawing conclusions based on evidence and observation

  3. Read Systematically: Read Actively: Read Critically: Know why you’re reading and what you’re looking for by setting up a plan Annotate while you read so that you can make assertions about the ideas Examine, Reflect, Evaluate, Respond to what you read Three Ways Reading Improves Writing:

  4. Read Actively using Arthur Costa’s Levels of Questioning • Summarize, Question, Clarify, Predict, Evaluate • WRITE after you read. Try to “talk to yourself” after you read • Mark up the text, if you can, and immediately follow that with notetaking. Don’t simply mark the book--take it a step further

  5. What does it mean to annotate a text? To ‘mark’ a text by circling important (or confusing) words, underlining key ideas (or things that strike you), writing questions in the margin, and reflecting in the margins

  6. Check out the website for samples! www.thecollegewriter.com

  7. Other ways to react to text • Map the text--write central ideas and then connect ideas • Outline the text--write out all of the major parts, points, and subpoints of the reading or ‘text’ by focusing on the introduction, the ideas, the thesis, and the conclusion

  8. EVALUATING: this means to thoughtfully inspect and then react to the reading and the ideas in the reading, as well as HOW the writer presented the ideas Judge the credibility of the text--who wrote it and why? Put the text in a larger context--how do the ideas connect to other ideas Analyze the evidence and how the writer comes to particular conclusions How were you challenged by the reading? Purposes for annotating and note-taking

  9. Responding to the text • Sometimes you’ll be required to write a ‘formal’ response to a text, but it’s always good to write an informal journal entry response to a text, whether you’re required to write something formal later or not. This type of responding will help cement ideas from the text, and will help you build your foundation of information on a given topic

  10. And don’t forget! No matter if you think you’ll NEVER reference it again, make an MLA citation and a 25-word annotation. It’s good practice, and you never know!

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