Chapter1

Chapter1

Critical Think Though Reading
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Try to spot main ideas
Preview the materital
Benefits
It gives yuou the big picture
It stabilzes and directs your thought
It gets yuo over the starting hump
Question
Turn the headings and subheading into questions
Imagine a specific test question covering each major point in reading
ask question:who, what,when,where
Benefits----ask question will keep you actively thinking about
Read
ask question?
what does this mean?
how do the idea relate to each other
Recite
listing the key point and to what I know?
writing a summary
what's coming next?
Review
visualize the concepts in concrete ways
DRAW DIOGRAMS OR CLUSTERS
put the materical in your own words
teach it to some
use acroryms or rhymes
Reading Actively
pace yuourself
project
Speak the text
track the text
annotate the text
write a question
link relater passages
add personal observations
create a marginal index
map the text
outline the text
sample otline for "The Media and the Ethics of cloning"
Evaluate the text
1.judge the reading's creding's cred
2.put the reading in a larger context
3.evaluate the reasoning and support
4.reflect on how the reading challenges you
responding to a text
follow these guidelines for response writing
Be honest
Be fluid
Be reflective
Be selective
Summarizing a text
Using these guidelines for summary writing
Skim first then read closely
capture the text,s argument
test your summary
critical thinking through viewing
consider these guidelines for viewing images
view actively
question the image
inspect all of it
view with a purpose
arouse curosity?
inform?
illustrate?
persuade?
summarize?
view with a plan
survey the image
question the image as shown above
relate the image's parts to one another
relate the image
surrounding text
other images
the world as your know it
decide whatv to do with the information it offers
view an image
nterpreting an image
understand
the elements of interpretation
the complications in interpretation
Image
designer
viewer
subject
message
context
medium
interpret an image
evaluating an image
Consider the purpose
oranamentation
illustration
revelation
explanation
instruction
persuasion
entertainment
evaluate the quality
determine the value
evaluate images
critical thinking through writing
develop sound critical-thinking habits
Be curious
Be creative
Be open to new ideas
value others' points of view
get involved
focus
Be rational
make connections
tolerate ambiguity
test the evidence
develop research-based conclusions
expect results
ask probing questions
ask open questions
ask "educated" questions
keep a question journal
write Q &A drafts
practice inductive and deductive logic
Practicing modes of
think by using
analysis
composition
categories
structures
comparisons/contrasts
causes/effects
processes
synthesis
applying
bridging
combining
conflicting
inventing
proposing
sequencing
evaluation
aspects
vantage point
criteria
assessment
comparison
recommendation
application
purpose
benefits
solutions
outcomes