The document outline tips and trick on how to critical think when reading articles, text and anything piece of writing to help studenta on choosing academic standards picece of writing.
Reading critically consists of constantly asking yourself questions.
- You may consider your own reactions to the content of the text and it's to you personally.
Analyses how you plan to use the text and ask yourself:
- Do I agree with this viewpoint?
- How does it relate to what I already know?
- Is this text relevant to my needs? Does it help to answer my questions?
- You may also wonder how far the content of the text can be trusted, in other words, if it
is reliable - Does this text provide facts or opinions?
- If the text contains facts, has any data been obtained from research? How has the data
been gathered?
- If the text contains opinions, are these supported with evidence and relevant reasons?
- Is the argument convincing or is it unclear and not completely logical?
- The issue of objectivity is also important:
- Could the author be influenced by personal feelings or the context in which he or she
writes? In other words, is the author's objective?
- Has the author considered other contrasting viewpoints?
- What other perspectives or points of view could there be?
- Finally, it is also very important to find out when the text was written:
- When was this information produced?
- Is the data still useful or are more current statistics available?
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