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    This document outlines three domains for critically reading a text: validity, synthesis, and relevance. It provides guidance on evaluating a text's context, aims/hypotheses, methods, evidence/reasoning, findings, and conclusions. For validity, it evaluates accuracy and influence. For synthesis, it examines citations and influence within the field. For relevance, it considers the text's usefulness to the reader.

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    This document outlines three domains for critically reading a text: validity, synthesis, and relevance. It provides guidance on evaluating a text's context, aims/hypotheses, methods, evidence/reasoning, findings, and conclusions. For validity, it evaluates accuracy and influence. For synthesis, it examines citations and influence within the field. For relevance, it considers the text's usefulness to the reader.

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    Three Domains of Critical Reading: Questioning the Text

    Validity: On its own terms Synthesis: In relation to others Relevance: Usefulness to you
    Context: discipline/profession, authors,  2007  The article has been cited several times  No
    currency, bias  Mexico  It has been influencial.  I consider the article important because
     Environmental Economics  It is mainstream. of the contribution it can make to
     Most of the are authoritative. Eg. Carlos  It is clearly part of a debate, since it environmental care.
    Munoz-Piña is Director for Research and Data involves economics together with
    Integrit in Washington, D.C., United States. ecology.
     There could be interests in between, which
    are not directly appreciated.
    What are they doing? Research  I think that the aims are clear, but could be  I am not from the same field.
    Question/Aims/Hypothesis better presented.  It is a relatively new area of research. Nevertheless I consider good the use of
     It is valid because it is influenced with real  In recent years people have been the article
    data. interested in this topic.
     The question is significant, because it is
    related with a problem that affect all the
    people from the area of study.
    How did they do it? Methods, Models and  Yes, there are theories understood but no  They are not developing a completely
    Materials developed by their own. new method.
     The methods used for data interpretation  The methods used are acceptable
    seems to be appropriate. practice
     The data set is well chosen for the area and  They are adapting previous methods
    problem that is analysed.

    How do they know? Argument, evidence,  The interpretation make logical sense
    logic and reasoning  Other factors could be taken into account in  This article is not structured as mine.
    the research, but nevertheless I do not think
    that they lack something
     The results mean what they say they mean.

    What do they say? Findings and conclusions  The conclusions are related to their results  I can rely on their conclusions to build
     There could be more conclusions related with my own argument.
    the evidence presented  I am agree with their conclusions.

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