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Mastering Critical Reading Skills: Techniques and Practice

Enhance your critical reading skills with practice exercises on identifying fallacies, distinguishing fact from opinion, and evaluating argument relevancy. Explore various logical fallacies and propaganda techniques to strengthen your analytical abilities. Additional resources for further practice and understanding included.

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Mastering Critical Reading Skills: Techniques and Practice

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  1. Week 14 RDG 081

  2. Quote

  3. 6 Minute Fluency

  4. Chapter 9 & 10 • Argument: • Point • Relevant • Adequate • Critical Reading: • Fact • Opinion • Informed Opinion • Propaganda • Bandwagon, testimonial, transfer, plain folks, name calling, glittering generalities. • Errors in reasoning (fallacies) • Circular reasoning, personal attack, straw man, false cause, false comparison, either or

  5. Point: What the Author is trying to say. • Support: How the author proves his/her point • Good Argument: Provides a persuasive and logical evidence to back it up. • Relevant: It really applies to the point. • Irrelevant: Information that applies to the topic but not to the point. • Adequate: Enough amount of support to make the relevant statement reliable to be proved.

  6. Practice: • Practice 1: page 365 1-10 • Practice 2: page 368-369 1-4 • Review Test: page 379-380 1-5 • Logical Fallacies: http://learning.cl3.ust.hk/english-grammar-guide/Style/Logical_fallacies_quiz.htm

  7. Additional links: • Quiz 1: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/33/8660/2217196.cw/index.html • Quiz 2: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/33/8661/2217224.cw/index.html

  8. Fact and Opinion: http://users.dhp.com/~laflemm/RfT/Quiz2.htm • Unit Test: http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_winkler_paraessay_4/28/7366/1885945.cw/index.html

  9. Argument: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/ • Claim/support: • http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/

  10. Practice • Practice 1: page 406 1-10 • Practice 2: page 411 1-10 • Practice 3: page 417-418 1-10

  11. Additional Links • Fallacies: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/ • Propaganda: • http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/ • Fallacies: • http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/ • Propaganda: • http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/ • Biased Argument: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_henry_mrup_1/

  12. Assignment • Chapter 9: • Mastery Test: 1 A 1-3 B. All pg. 387-388 • Mastery Test: 3 Evens pg. 391-392 • Mastery Test: 6 All pg. 397-398 • Chapter 10: • Mastery Test: 2 1-20 evens pg. 433-434 • Mastery Test: 4 1-10 All pg. 437-438 • Mastery Test: 6 1-10 evens pg. 441-442 • Additional Reading: The Power Within page 533-546 # 1-20

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