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Its important to read with a pen or pencil, highlighting key statements, parts, or points – even those you find confusing. Also, make note of words or terms you don’t understand so you can look them up later.

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critical readers not only recognize what they are reading, they also realize how that text relates to the subject.

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Reading involves a fair measure of push and shove. You make

your mark on the book and it makes its mark on you.

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Critical reading can help you avoid simply reacting to a text and move towards

constructing an informed and critical response to it.

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When you are asked to “critique” a text, which readers are often asked to do, it does not mean that you have to “criticize” it and reject its argument out of hand. What you are being asked to do instead is to carefully evaluate and analyze the text’s ideas, to  understand how and why they are constructed and presented, and only then develop a response to that text. its also important to critique your own works.

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highlighting important details and events in your reading helps get a better idea of whats happening.

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When reading critically and actively, it is important not only to take in the words on the page, but also to interpret and to reflect

upon what you read through writing and discussing it

with others.

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Seek out other sources and texts that relate to your topic.

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Readers must work hard to create meaning from every text.

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Emotional appeals can have different effects on the readers. It can move some readers in different ways compared to others

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As a critical reader, you cannot look at text either article , journal, or website as a textbook. Works are one person's idea on a topic. Instead, you need to use texts as an idea in order to create your OWN ideas. It is an important part of becoming an independent and creative learner/critical reader.

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Critical readers should be able to reflect on what a selection emphasises as well as comprehend basic writing and response skills.

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Reading a material and taking notes, then putting the material out of sight, in order to base your own thoughts and opinions.

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Critical readers seek actively out other texts, related

to the topic of their investigation.

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The purpose of research is not simply to retrieve data, but to participate in a conversation

about it. Simple summaries of sources is not research,

and writers should be aiming for

active interpretation of sources instead.

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The worst thing to do is read something just once. Reread the passage multiple times so that your brain can understand it.

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Critical readers interact with the texts they read by

questioning them, responding to them,

and expanding them, usually in writing.

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"I see reading and writing as not two separate activities but as two tightly connected parts of the same whole thing."
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