AW-HD-9-Critical Reading.docVIP

Academic Writing: Graduates Chapter Seven Process and Techniques of Academic Writing VII Critical Reading Critical reading is the kind of reading that leads to writing. It begins with your understanding what you have read; moves to response, evaluation and even argument; and ends with the development of your own ideas and insights. Critical reading helps you to evaluate the ideas and information you encounter and to develop alternative points of view and interpretations. Reading critically, which puts your mind to work on a text, gives you new ideas by helping you link what you read to your own experience, to other texts of all kinds, to issues and information, or to a problem or responsibility. Your writing then adds to the discussion of a topic by incorporating insights you’ve gained from your critical reading. All the elements of the critical reading process are important if you wish your writing to build on what you have read. Thinking is something that comes naturally to everybody. But not everyone is aware of HOW they think. Being aware of how you think is the key to thinking critically. When you think critically you take control of your conscious thought processes. Without this control, you risk being controlled by the ideas of others. Critical thinking is at the heart of a liberal education. What does the word “critical” mean here? __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ What is critical thinking? __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ 棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗棗?All critical thinking involves the activities of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Analysis: __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Synthesis: _________________________________________________________