Critical Reading and Thinking Strategies

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What is critical reading?

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Critical reading is engaging yourself in a text or any material that you are reading, and it does not necessarily mean being critical of it.

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What is critical thinking?

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Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally, understanding the relation of ideas presented.

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List one characteristic of a critical thinker.

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A critical thinker understands the relation of one idea to another.

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What is annotating in critical reading?

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Annotating is underlining or highlighting important ideas or points in a text.

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What does contextual reading involve?

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Contextual reading involves studying the author, the time period when the text was written, and important events during that time.

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What is the purpose of outlining in critical reading?

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Outlining provides an overview of a document, arranging information and ideas according to hierarchy.

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Define summarizing in the context of critical reading.

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Summarizing is condensing or writing material in the reader’s own words, shorter than the original but containing important ideas.

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What is paraphrasing?

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Paraphrasing is putting a text in your own words while maintaining the original information.

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What is the difference between comparing and contrasting?

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Comparing identifies similarities, while contrasting identifies differences between two or more ideas.

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What does evaluating an argument entail?

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Evaluating an argument means not accepting claims at face value and assessing their truth and evidence.