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Critical Reading As A Form of Reasoning

The document discusses critical reading as a form of reasoning, emphasizing the importance of evaluating texts for reliability and credibility. It outlines learning objectives for understanding critical reading and provides methods to become a critical reader, such as annotating and summarizing texts. Additionally, it highlights characteristics of critical readers and the necessity of questioning both the text and one's own understanding.

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Critical Reading As A Form of Reasoning

The document discusses critical reading as a form of reasoning, emphasizing the importance of evaluating texts for reliability and credibility. It outlines learning objectives for understanding critical reading and provides methods to become a critical reader, such as annotating and summarizing texts. Additionally, it highlights characteristics of critical readers and the necessity of questioning both the text and one's own understanding.

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Critical Reading

as a Form of
Reasoning
2

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW

Critical Reading as a Form of Reasoning


Information cannot always be trusted.
As a critical reader, you should be able to use textual evidence to support
implicit and explicit information presented in the text. This is needed to
assess the overall quality of the text.
This lesson helps you to carefully and critically evaluate texts in order to
formulate sound judgment that can be supported by valid reasons or
proofs. A reader gets an edge in ensuring that information is reliable, true
and credible only after validating and crosschecking of the text.
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Learning Competency
Explains critical reading as a form of reasoning.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
1. explain why critical reading is imperative to sound reasoning;
2. respond to questions asked; and,
3. use critical thinking in accomplishing tasks.
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Engaging the Audience


Directions: Analyze the statements below. In your notebook, write whether
The statement is FACT or BLUFF.
1. Critical reading requires distinguishing between facts or opinions.
2. It is a must that main arguments be supported by factual information.
3. Always take the author's own statement as true.
4. Academic reading needs concentration and comprehension.
5. Questioning both the text and our own reading of it is reading critically.
6. Critical reading means criticizing the text.
7. Opinions are not reliable unless supported by giving evidences and citing sources.
"Reading is asking
questions of printed
text.“
-Frank Smith in Reading without
Nonsense (1997),
To read critically, it is vital that one
knows what correct and incorrect
reasoning is.

“Reasoning is the ability of


your mind to think and
understand things in a logical
way to form
a conclusion or judgment”

(Padilla, Mely M., et al, 2017).


According to Harris and Hodges
(1981),
―it is the process of making
judgments in reading: evaluating
relevancy and adequacy of what is
read.
read. To do this, it is pivotal to
ask the following questions:

*What is the author trying to


say? With all these
questions
*What is the main argument answered, you get
being presented? to evaluate and
*Does the text use statements assess the veracity/
or evidences that support its truthfulness,
conclusions? reliability,
*Do the evidences include
credibility of the
reasons that justify your statements, hence
beliefs? arms you to make
your own
Characteristics of Critical Readers 8

1. Spend time reflecting on evidence


the reading material 9. Recognize errors and good
2. Evaluate and solve arguments
problems rather than simply 10. Willing to take on critical
compiling certain facts stance on issues
3. Think logically 11. Ask pertinent questions
4. Seek out the truth 12. Willing to change their
5. Eager to express their ideas whenever new set of
thoughts information is introduced
6. Look at alternative views 13. See connections between
about a topic. topics and use knowledge
7. Open to new ideas from other disciplines to
enhance their experiences
8. Base their judgments on
Ways to become a Critical Reader 9

1. Annotate what 4. Evaluate the text-


you read- writing on use the other 3
the text ways. Question the
2. Outline the text- purpose, intention,
identify the main and
points assumptions. Check
3. Summarize the if there are pieces
text- Get the main of evidence that are
gist or point of the valid and credible.
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Dynamic delivery
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Thank You

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