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Critical Reading

This document discusses critical reading. It defines critical reading and differentiates between critical and non-critical readers. It provides strategies for readers to develop critical reading skills like self-reflection, understanding the author's purpose, and engaging with the text.

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Critical Reading

This document discusses critical reading. It defines critical reading and differentiates between critical and non-critical readers. It provides strategies for readers to develop critical reading skills like self-reflection, understanding the author's purpose, and engaging with the text.

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Reading and Writing

Critical
Reading
Objectives:
• Explain what critical reading is.
• Recognize a critical reader and non-critical reader.
• Identify the reading strategies.
Reading is a part of a student’s life. One of the
kinds of reading that students perform is critical
reading.

Critical Reading
In critical reading, the readers are trained to
believe in their capacity to think beyond what a
reading material offers and later cultivate this
value as it engenders critical thinking.
Critical Reading
If this skill is well-developed, nurtured and
enhanced, the readers are obviously
challenged to reason out, justify their
thoughts, ideas and decisions.
Critical Reading
This type of reading goes beyond passively
understanding a text because you process the author’s
words and make judgments after carefully considering
the reading’s message.
Critical Reader
vs
Non-critical Reader
A critical reader might read the same work to appreciate how a particular
perspective on the events and a particular selection of facts can lead to
particular understanding. A non-critical reader is satisfied with recognizing
what a text says and restating the key remarks.
Requirements to be a
Critical Reader
• The ability to pose problematic questions about the topic.
• The ability to analyze a problem in all its dimensions.
• The ability to find, gather, and interpret data and facts.
• The ability to imagine alternative solutions to the problem.
• The ability to analyze competing approaches and answers.
A critical reader should reflect
on:
• The literal meaning of the text.
• What the text describes.
• Interpretation of the text.
What needs to be done to
prepare for critical reading?
• Self-Reflect before and after reading.
• Read to Understand by:
a. Examining the text and its context.
b. Skimming the text.
c. Resolving confusion.
Suggested ways to help you
become a critical reader:
• Identify what you are reading for.
• Engage with the text to get the most out of it.
• Prepare to read with an open mind.
• Understand the author's writing purpose.
Identify what you are
reading for.
Before you read a text, ask and answer the following questions:
Are you reading only for general content? For data? For specific
information or for general thematic concerns? For arguments that
support or contest your thesis in a writing assignment? For
information that you know you’ll need for an assignment, or for
information to get you thinking about what you’ll need?
Engage with the text to
get the most out of it.
Read with a pen or pencil, highlighting key statements, parts,
or points – even those you find confusing. Also, make note of
words or terms you don’t understand so you can look them up
later.
Prepare to read with an
open mind.
Critical readers seek knowledge; they do not
"rewrite" a work to suit their own personalities. Your
task as an enlightened critical reader is to read what
is on the page, giving the writer a fair chance to
develop ideas and allowing yourself to reflect
thoughtfully and objectively
on the text.
Understand the author's
writing purpose.
Reading a text critically requires that you ask questions
about the writer’s authority and agenda. You may need to
put yourself in the author’s shoes and recognize that
those shoes fit a certain way of thinking.
Thank you!
Choose one of the following statements. Explain
your reasons for agreeing or disagreeing with the
idea expressed in your chosen statement in not
more than 50 words.

1. Being poor is an advantage.


2. Poverty is a product of greed.
3. Equal distribution of wealth/resources should
be encouraged to help the poor.
4. Unleashing the potential of the poor is a far
better safeguard than living with armed security
guards.

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