READ 82 DLA 1 READ 82 DLA 3 7 Name: Student ID Number: Click or tap here to enter text. Course Title: Read 83 Instructor: Professor Hotra Date: 12/5/2022 Read 823. Understanding an Author’s Argument This activity connects to the following Student Learning Outcome (SLO): Demonstrate the ability to differentiate between general and specific ideas in order to determine the author’s stated or implied main idea (literal and inferential comprehension) in text at Long Beach City College’s proficiency level. Watch this video to learn how to complete a DLA. This DLA, including about 15-20 minutes to meet with a tutor, is designed to be completed in approximately one hour. Your thinking process and the quality of your work should be of the utmost importance to you. Concentrate on your end result, not the time. It is perfectly acceptable and, in fact, you are encouraged to take more time. Remember to annotate the activity. Annotating and Marking Part of reading actively involves the process of annotating and marking the text. As you read through this entire activity, write down questions, underline and/or highlight important points, make a note of new vocabulary, and include additional margin notes that you may refer to during the review session. For help annotating this activity, see the following video tutorials: A Quick Guide to Annotation, Using Word: Installing and Annotating, and Annotating with Adobe. Purpose: This activity will help you to recognize and understand an author’s written argument. Relevance: Are you a critical thinker? Do you accept the thinking of others or do you think for yourself? Do you collect information, identify important questions, and systematically search for answers? Can you justify what you believe? Critical thinkers know how to effectively search, compare, analyze, clarify, evaluate, and conclude. In all of your reading in college, and for the rest of your life, you will want to read with a questioning mind. One important reason for this questioning approach is that it will enable you to recognize a sound argument (and just as importantly, an unsound argument) in your reading material. (A sound argument is one in which the reasons you provide actually do support the argument you are making.) If you do not critically evaluate controversial written material, you run the risk of being misled or manipulated by the author. This DLA will give you practice identifying the argument which is the first step to evaluating an author’s written argument. Outcomes: Within your Read 82 class instruction you have been learning the critical reading skills of distinguishing facts from opinions, making logical inferences and drawing conclusions, and determining the author’s purpose, tone, point of view, and intended audience. In DLA # 3, you will be building upon these skills in order to identify an author.