Elements of Critical Reading
To analyze, evaluate, and interpret information.
What is the main purpose of critical reading?
It contains the main point of what you are writing about.
A brief, accurate "boiling down."
What is a summary?
The audience
What is who is your message directed toward?
A list of all the sources used in your research.
What is a bibliography?
A fact is a statement that can be proven true or false, while an opinion is a personal belief or judgment.
What is the difference between a fact and an opinion?
Constructive feedback.
What kind of feedback do you give when responding to another's writing?
Using another person's words verbatim.
What is a quote?
Examples include reports, position, and remix.
What are genres?
MLA, APA, and Chicago.
What are common citation styles?
Used to back up claims in a text.
What are sources?
Putting ideas into your own words or sentences.
Consists of a topic statement and supporting statements.
What is a paragraph?
The way you come across in writing
What is stance?
Indicate a break in a quotation.
Guide readers in following the direction of the writer's thinking from idea to idea.
What are transitions?
"As Hoffman indicated in his review of Deadpool and Wolverine" is an example?
What is a signal phrase?
Being clear & concise, specific and arguable are its elements.
What is a thesis statement?
The way text is displayed on a webpage is an example of this rhetorical situation element.
The practice of adding notes, comments or explanations to a text.
A claim or assertion that is supported by reasoning and evidence.
What is an argument?
Copying someone's work and claiming it as your own.
What is plagiarism?
A reference to a source that you have used in your writing.
Explaining and persuading are two examples of this rhetorical situation element.
Montaigne could be considered the father of this literary genre.
What is the essay?