The document discusses critical reading strategies. It defines critical reading as reading to discover information and ideas within a text in an evaluative, analytical, and goal-oriented way. It then outlines several critical reading strategies including previewing, re-reading, annotating, contextualizing, questioning, reflecting, outlining and summarizing, evaluating, and comparing. Specific tips are provided for how to implement each strategy when critically reading a text.

1. Presented by Jee Hwang
September 19, 2012

2. What is Critical Reading?
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 Reading for the purpose of discovering information
and ideas within text
 Evaluative and analytical
 Goal oriented
 Unbiased

3. Critical Reading Strategies
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 Preview
 Re-read
 Annotate
 Contextualize
 Question
 Reflect
 Outline and Summarize
 Evaluate
 Compare

4. Preview
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 Read front and back covers
 Read table of contents
 Search info about book and author on internet

5. Re-read
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 Re-visit interesting or confusing sections
 Read slowly the second or third time

6. Annotate
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 Short summaries
 Comments and questions
 Underline and define keywords
 Bracket important sections
 Make an idea map
 Number related points

7. Contextualize
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 Place text in its:
 Historical
 Biographical
 Cultural
 Intellectual context

8. Question
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 Write questions when author’s arguments or
reasoning seems confusing

9. Reflect
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 Be aware of your emotional responses to text
 This will help you stay objective in your readings

10. Outline and Summarize
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 Identify the main arguments and re-state them in
your own words

11. Evaluate
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 Did the text change the way you think or feel about
the subject?

12. Compare
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 How are the arguments, methods, and prose style
similar to others you have read?