Academic Skills Center: Critical Reading
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Reading Skills Part 1: Set Yourself Up for Success
"While - like many of us - I enjoy reading what I want to read, I still struggle to get through a dense research article or textbook chapter. I have noticed, however, that if I take steps to prepare, I am much more likely to persist through a challenging reading. "
Reading Skills Part 2: Alternatives to Highlighting
"It starts with the best of intentions: trusty highlighter in hand or (for the tech-savvy crowd) highlighting tool hovering on-screen, you work your way through an assigned reading, marking only the most important information—or so you think."
Reading Skills Part 3: Read to Remember
"It’s happened to the best of us: on Monday evening, you congratulate yourself on making it though an especially challenging reading. What a productive start to the week!"
Reading a Research Article Assigned as Coursework
"Reading skills are vital to your success at Walden. The kind of reading you do during your degree program will vary, but most of it will involve reading journal articles based on primary research."
Critical Reading for Evaluation
"Whereas analysis involves noticing, evaluation requires the reader to make a judgment about the text’s strengths and weaknesses. Many students are not confident in their ability to assess what they are reading."
Critical Reading for Analysis and Comparison
"Critical reading generally refers to reading in a scholarly context, with an eye toward identifying a text or author’s viewpoints, arguments, evidence, potential biases, and conclusions."
Pre-Reading Strategies
Triple entry notebook, critical thinking.
Use this checklist to practice critical thinking while reading an article, watching an advertisement, or making an important purchase or voting decision.
Critical Reading Checklist (Word) Critical Reading Checklist (PDF) Critical Thinking Bookmark (PDF)
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Use this checklist to practice critical thinking while reading an article, watching an advertisement, or making an important purchase or voting decision. Critical Reading Checklist (Word) Critical Reading Checklist (PDF) Critical Thinking Bookmark (PDF) Learn about the ways that active reading instead of passive reading is the key to growing ...