1. Recognize the author's purpose.
Involves inferring a basis for choices of content and language.
2.To understand tone and persuasive elements.
Recognizing tones and persuasive elements involves Classifying the nature of language choices.
3.To recognize bias.
Involves classifying the nature of patterns of choice of content and language.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Critical reading Strategies
When it comes to critical reading, there are four strategy steps to follow.
Step 1. Skim
Glance at parts of a book or article to gain a quick, general overview of it.
Step 2. Reflection
A time spent examining your own views of a topic, rather than the author's views.
Step 3. Reading
Which is to just read what you are working on.
Step 4. Evaluation
The process of asking questions to determine the truthfulness of an issue, statement, or position.
Step 1. Skim
Glance at parts of a book or article to gain a quick, general overview of it.
Step 2. Reflection
A time spent examining your own views of a topic, rather than the author's views.
Step 3. Reading
Which is to just read what you are working on.
Step 4. Evaluation
The process of asking questions to determine the truthfulness of an issue, statement, or position.
6 Bad Habits That Hinders Critical Thinking
1. Mine-is-better
The tendency to regard one's present idea's, values, opinions, customs, and traditions as superior to another.
2.Face-Saving
Unlike mine-is-better, face-saving occurs AFTER we have said or done something that threatens to disturb our self image of the image others have of us.
3.Resistance to change
The tendency to reject new idea's and new ways of doing and seeing without examining it fairly.
4.Conformity
When we do something to belong to a group or avoid the risk of being different. It is, in short, an act of cowardice, sacrifice of independence for a lesser good.
5.Stereotyping
An extreme form of generalization that goes beyond the boundaries of reasonableness to the degree that it is fixed unbending over generalization, traditionally maintained.
6.Self-Deception
Is the willful forgetting of whatever in a person's past does not flatter or confirm a present point of view.
The tendency to regard one's present idea's, values, opinions, customs, and traditions as superior to another.
2.Face-Saving
Unlike mine-is-better, face-saving occurs AFTER we have said or done something that threatens to disturb our self image of the image others have of us.
3.Resistance to change
The tendency to reject new idea's and new ways of doing and seeing without examining it fairly.
4.Conformity
When we do something to belong to a group or avoid the risk of being different. It is, in short, an act of cowardice, sacrifice of independence for a lesser good.
5.Stereotyping
An extreme form of generalization that goes beyond the boundaries of reasonableness to the degree that it is fixed unbending over generalization, traditionally maintained.
6.Self-Deception
Is the willful forgetting of whatever in a person's past does not flatter or confirm a present point of view.
When i first started this class, i didn't think that i would learn anything from it because i figured that me thinking period is critically. But now that i am at the end of my journey with this class, i can truly say that i have learned what it really means to be a critical thinker and reader, and it doesn't comes naturally.
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