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Critical Reading As A Form of Reasoning

Critical reading involves evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting the assertions and hidden meanings within a text. It requires questioning the author's arguments and assessing the validity of evidence rather than taking the text at face value. The goal is to advance understanding by examining inconsistencies and limitations rather than simply restating what is said.

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Critical Reading As A Form of Reasoning

Critical reading involves evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting the assertions and hidden meanings within a text. It requires questioning the author's arguments and assessing the validity of evidence rather than taking the text at face value. The goal is to advance understanding by examining inconsistencies and limitations rather than simply restating what is said.

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CRITICAL READING

AS A FORM OF
REASONING
CRITICAL READING

 Criticalreading is engaging in analytic


activity which involves the reader by
asking questions about the text and the
author’s claim. Critical readers are doing
the process of evaluating, analyzing, and
interpreting the assertion of the hidden
meaning of the whole text.
REASONING

While reasoning as defined by


Merriam Webster dictionary is an
act of giving statements for
justification and explanation. It is
the ability of someone to defend
something by giving out reasons.
CRITICAL READING AS REASONING

 Therefore,when  Remember that


reading critically, it is Critical reading is not
necessary to question
the different meant to criticize but
arguments used by the to assess the validity of
author, as any textual evidence.
problem can weaken
the authenticity of the
conclusion.
 Criticalreading 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).
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 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.
 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.

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