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Reading and Writing Skills

Critical
Reading as Reasoning
Explain critical reading as reasoning (EN11/12RWS-IVac-8)
Objectives:
1. Examine critical reading as reasoning
2. Analyze the importance of critical reading
through making judgments
3. Apply ways of improving critical reading
skills by restating a chosen text in own words.
Reading is the process of looking at series of
symbols and getting meaning from them.

Critical Reading means that a reader applies


certain processes, models, questions, and
theories that result in enhanced clarity and
comprehension
Reasoning is the act of thinking about
something in a logical and sensible way.

Critical Reading
as Reasoning
Magnifying Critical Reading
Ø Critical reading goes beyond recognition of the text’s meaning
and restating it in your own words.

Ø A critical reader does not merely skim the text at hand.

Ø To reach a solid interpretation of a text, the critical reader must


dwell on what the text does by making such remarks beyond
what it says. From this, the critical reader must identify what the
text wholly means based on the previous analysis.
Reading Critical Reading
Critical reading advances the understanding of the
reader by not taking the text by its face value. It
studies the composition’s every nook and cranny
until you find the author’s inconsistencies,
oversights, limitations and other reasonable
arguments that is often overlooked by a normal reader.

According to the website criticalreading.com, there are


three steps of analysis reflecting the three types of
reading and discussion:
1. What a text says – restatement (wherein the
reader merely restates what is said in the original
text)

2. What a text does – description (wherein the


reader discusses aspects of the discussion itself)

3. What a text means – interpretation (wherein the


reader analyzes the meaning of the text as a whole).
Critical reading does not simply ask what the text
says but more of how the topic is presented and
why. Critical readers dwell on the distinctive qualities
of the text. Readers normally read texts to obtain
facts and knowledge. A critical reader, on the other
hand, mulls over the unique perspective of the
author on a particular text and how the facts the
author presented arrived at his/her conclusion.
Goals of Critical Reading
Prentice Hall has enumerated the following critical
reading skills:
1. The ability to distinguish between fact and opinion
2. The ability to identify the author’s purpose
3. The ability to make inferences
4. The ability to recognize the author’s tone
5. The ability to recognize persuasive techniques
Critical reading ultimately examines the author’s choice of
content, language and structure. The basis of recognizing the
purpose of an author is their choice of content and language to use.
The critical reader analyzes the tone and persuasive elements
of a text through reviewing the choice of language used. In
recognizing the bias of the text, the critical reader must identify the
nature of patterns of choice of content and language.

Critical reading teaches the reader how to not blindly accept all
the presented facts without further examination. This technique
allows you to confirm and present your own argument. The practical
starting point of every critical reader is to question everything you
read.
7 Critical Reading Strategies
1. Previewing
2. Contextualizing
3. Questioning to understand and remember.
4. Reflecting on challenges to your beliefs and
values
5. Outlining and summarizing
6. Evaluating an argument
7. Comparing and contrasting
In Conclusion
To read critically is to make judgments about how a
text is argued. This is a highly reflective skill requiring
you to stand back and gain some distance from the text
you are reading.

It is not recommended to read just to look only or


primarily for information; instead, read to look for ways
of thinking about the subject matter.
Activity: Summarize a text using own
words.

• Content – 15 pts
• Grammar & Proper mechanics – 10 pts
• Organization of ideas – 15 pts
Total: 40 pts

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