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Dan Kurland's www.criticalreading.com -- Strategies for Critical Reading and Writing

Dan Kurland's

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"Never accept things as they're portrayed."


Anthony Shadid, journalist, 1968-2012
To non-critical readers, many texts offer the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
To the critical reader, any single text provides but one portrayal of the facts, one individual's "take" on the subject.
Non-critical (or pre-critical) reading is concerned with recognizing
what a text says about the topic. The goal is to make sense of the
presentation as a sequence of thoughts, to understand the
information, ideas, and opinions stated within the text from sentence
to sentence, paragraph to paragraph. This is a linear activity.
Critical reading is an analytic activity. The reader rereads a text to
identify patterns of elements -- information, values, assumptions,
and language usage-- throughout the discussion. These elements are
tied together in an interpretation, an assertion of an underlying
meaning of the text as a whole.
Critical thinking involves bringing outside knowledge and values to
bear to evaluate the presentation and decide what to ultimately
accept as true.
criticalreading.com shows you how to recognize what a text says,
what a text does, and what a text means
by analyzing choices of content, language, and structure.
It shows you what to look for, and how to think about what you find.

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11/27/2014

Dan Kurland's www.criticalreading.com -- Strategies for Critical Reading and Writing

Everyone complains that students cannot read well


and yet most high schools and colleges offer no course in critical reading.
This is the website for just such a course.
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