What Every Student Should Know About Critical Reading

by Baker, Shadric; Richardi Beitman, Vivian

• ISBN13: 9780205869923
• ISBN10: 0205869920
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-07-04
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

What Every Student Should Know About Critical Readingwill teach you how to approach a variety of reading situations with a critical eye so that you can make better and smarter decisions about what you read.

Table of Contents

Preface v

 

CHAPTER 1: What Is Critical Reading and Why Is It

Important? 1

Benefits of critical reading and thinking 1

Learning to read and think critically 3

Identifying your own biases and obstacles to critical reading

and thinking 5

The structure of this text 6

 

CHAPTER 2: Reading Strategies: Surveying, Predicting,

Annotating, and Learning New Vocabulary 8

Surveying 8

Predicting 10

Annotating 11

Learning new vocabulary 12

 

CHAPTER 3: Identifying Topic, Main Idea,

and Details 21

Identifying the topic 21

Identifying details 22

Identifying the main idea 27

 

CHAPTER 4: Making Inferences and Recognizing Author’s

Purpose, Audience, and Tone 35

Forming inferences 36

Inferring an author’s audience 37

Inferring an author’s purpose 39

Inferring word connotation 42

Inferring an author’s tone 43

 

CHAPTER 5: Recognizing and Judging Arguments 47

Recognizing arguments 47

Evidence 49

Source credibility 53

Logic 55

 

CHAPTER 6: Dealing with Worldviews and Bias 60

Worldviews 60

Identifying worldviews as you read 62

Bias 63

Identifying bias as you read 65

 

CHAPTER 7: Reading and Thinking for Life 69

 

Index 71