This document outlines six reading habits for critical thinking: 1) Preview the text to understand context, 2) Annotate by highlighting and noting questions, 3) Outline main ideas and summarize, 4) Identify repetitions and patterns, 5) Consider the context of publication, and 6) Compare texts on similar topics. These habits include previewing a text, actively annotating, outlining and summarizing the key points, analyzing repetitions and patterns, contextualizing within its time and field, and comparing to other works. Mastering these six reading strategies helps develop strong critical thinking skills for study.

1. NAZISH JAMALI -
008
Subject: Critical Thinking

2. Interrogating The
Text

3. Objectives
By the end of this Presentation the student will
be able to:
1. Define How to questioning from texts and
paragraphs
2. How to set outline ?
3. How to summarize ?
4. How to analyze ?
5. How to make more questions from any
paragraph ?

4. Interrogating The Text
Six (6) Reading Habits to Develop You in Study
 Preview The Text
 Annotating
 Outline, Summarize, Analyze
 Repetitions & Patterns
 Contextualize
 Compare & Contrast

5. Preview The Text
 Title
 Text style
 Author/Editor
 Date of publish
 Headings/Sub-Headings
 Images

6. Preview The Text
 Look around the text before you start
reading
 previewing enables you to develop a set
of expectations about the scope and aim
of text
 in first step you will know about the
author, Editors, publish date, Headings,
sub-headings, images, contents, etc

7. Step One
Preview The Document

8. Annotating
 Highlight the words
 Use the margins with words and phrases
 Develop or design a system of symbols
 Ask questions and notate them in the margins

9. Annotating
 Make your reading thinking-intensive from start to finish.
 Annotating puts you actively and immediately in a “dialogue” with an
author and issues and ideas you encounter in a written text
 Highlight the main points because it can seem like an active reading
strategy. Those highlighted lines one day you can seem strangely cryptic
the text unless you have method for remembering why they were
important to you
 Mark up the margins of your text with words and phrases with important
points which are discussed during class, as you remember points, issues
and ideas
 Develop your own symbol system asterisk (*) a key idea, for example or
use an exclamation point (!) for the surprising
 Get in the habit of hearing yourself ask questions what, why, when, where,
such type of these ask questions from yourself, something to ask during
class discussion

10. STEP TWO
ANNOTATING THE
DOCUMENT

11. Outline, summarize, analyze
 Outline: On a separate piece of paper or on the
back of the paper, informally outline the text
 Summarize: Connect your ideas from the outline
into sentences that restate or argue the authors
main points.
 Analysis: What is the author asking you to
believe? Is the author using facts, opinion or
both? Do the authors facts or opinions convince
me to believe what is being said?

12. STEP THREE
OUTLINE, SUMMARIZE,
ANALYZE

13. Repetitions and Patterns
 he expects you to glean from his argument. It
can also alert you to ideological positions,
hidden agendas or biases.
Be watching for:
 Recurring images
 Repeated words, phrases, types of examples,
or illustrations
 Consistent ways of characterizing people,
events, or issues

14. STEP FOUR
REPETITIONS
AND PATTERNS

15. Contextualize
 Review your notes, symbols, questions
 Reread the piece and review your
outline/summary-did you get it right?
 Recheck the date of publication and the
publisher-does this change your view of the text
 Does the place and time that you are interacting
with the text influence your view/bias of the
piece?

16. STEP FOUR
CONTEXTUALIZE

17. Compare and Contrast
 Find a similar text
 Preview
 Annotate your dialogue with the author
 Outline/Summarize/Analyze
 Has your thinking been altered by these texts
 How are the texts similar and how are they
different?
 How have the readings affected your response
the issues or themes in the course?

18. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

19. Conclusion
 Interrogating The Text
 What is Preview The Text ?
 What is Annotating ?
 What is Outline, Summarize, Analyze ?
 What is Repetitions & Patterns ?
 What is Contextualize ?
 What is Compare & Contrast ?

20. Reference
 Susan Gilroy, Librarian for Undergraduate
Programs for Writing, Lamont and Widener
Libraries 08.05.11, Copyright © 2011
President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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