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How the Language Really Works:
The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing
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Critical Reading
Inference
Choices
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Steps in Critical Reading

Critical reading is presented here in discrete steps
to isolate and highlight individual elements.

In actual practice, many steps are accomplished at the same time,
each step reinforcing and facilitating others as you go along.

Read for literal meaning

Read sentence by sentence to decode meaning.

Analyze and Describe

Isolate and classify patterns of elements and their relationships

Content: recognize the major topics amd subtopics under discussion. Language: be alert to the choice of terms

Interpret an overall meaning

What meaning and understanding is implied by presenting these ideas in this manner?

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