CRITICAL READING

G. A. P. Suprianti
English Language Education
Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha
What will you learn in Critical Reading Class?
(Plus Class Contract)

Fact, opinion, Goal and context of a Pattern of an Making judgement

argument text argument about a text

Contract:
1. 75% of attendance to pass the class;
2. E-learning will be used but not always;
3. Activity in the class and e-learning will be highly considered for final result;
What is critical reading?
• An active way of reading. Read beyond what is being presented by the text
• Deeper and complex engagement with a subject matter (more than understanding)

Reading Critical Reading

Purpose To grasp information from a text To interpret, analyze, and evaluate about how a text
works
Sources One source One or multiple related sources

Activity Remembering, understanding Interpreting, Analyzing, evaluating

Questions What is the text saying? How is the main argument presented?
What information can I get from it? What kinds of reasoning and evidence are used?
What does the text mean?
Directions With the text (take the information in the Questioning the text assumptions and argument,
text) interpreting meaning in context
Response Restatement Description, interpretation, evaluation

© Jennifer Duncan. The Writing Centre, University of Toronto Scarborough.

For you to discuss!

Do we always need to read critically?

When do we need to read critically?

When?
1.Academic purposes
2.examine different point of views
3.prevent hoax
Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Process
(in relation to Critical Reading)

Higher-order of thinking skill (HOTS)

CRITICAL READING

Lower-order of thinking skill (LOTS)

READING
(Basic and Interpretative)
Read critically
Interpreting Analyzing Evaluating
(Goal and context) (Pattern of Argument) (Making Judgement about the Text)
What is the possible goal of the author What is the main argument? Is the argument convincing?
when writing the text?
What is the context (point of view) How does the author support the Are the sources reliable?
being discussed? argument?
How might my reading be biased? What examples are used as evidence? Is the supporting details logically
consistent?
What mode of analysis is used? What are the strengths and
(illustration, comparison/contrast, cause weaknesses of the discussion?
and effect, classification, etc)
What needs to be added to the
discussion? e.g. to build stronger
argument

Adapted from Jennifer Duncan. The Writing Centre, University of Toronto Scarborough.
What needs to be prepared to read critically?

Read many sources

Be skeptical

Open mind

Try to understand many point of views

Respect other opinion