Discussion Prompt #1: "What Is Critical Reading?" In regard to your original post, now add to what you wrote originally. Submit your essay of 250-350 describing how critical reading makes a difference. Please respond to a classmate or two with what they post here.
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8/24/2011 02:05:29 am
Shandell McKay
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renee wisdom
8/24/2011 06:32:14 am
Well said Shandell. :D
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8/25/2011 04:23:53 am
Shandell: I think that you have summarized things well and put the notions in a very agreeable understanding. I do agree that with an open mind, you can decipher what you believe is factual and relevant to the point of the readings. I feel that in modern America now, people are more susceptible to conform to other people's beliefs and not depict their own opinions, which makes creativity and individuality almost entirely extinct. If we keep believing everything we read or see, we will not form our own ideas.
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Travis Riendeau
8/25/2011 05:28:08 am
I quite agree, Shandell. One needs to be able to critically read and make their own observations.
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Abel Valdenegro
8/25/2011 10:28:00 am
Wow that was really good shandell
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Shandell McKay
8/26/2011 01:46:12 am
Thank you everyone for the comments.
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Keaton Honaker
8/26/2011 04:57:18 am
I do believe Shandell summed it all up! Great job :)
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8/26/2011 06:08:27 am
Parsa Nikpour
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Parsa Nikpour
8/26/2011 06:10:29 am
And Shandell I could not have described it better. The reader should understand the author's intentions to better comprehend the matter.
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8/26/2011 09:43:25 am
Isaac Bonds
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Georgina Urizar
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8/27/2011 03:27:28 am
Emarree Williams
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8/27/2011 03:30:19 am
Hi Georgina, I think your response was informative.
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8/27/2011 05:15:30 am
This semester in our Critical Reading 101 - ONLINE class we are required to do four projects, one group project for (Project HOPE) as well as an individual, a personal issue project and service project.
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Mike Campbell
8/27/2011 05:17:26 am
Shandell,
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Mike Campbell
8/27/2011 05:20:44 am
Emarree Williams, very good understanding in your statements about critical reading.
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renee wisdom
8/27/2011 12:13:13 pm
What is critical reading?
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renee wisdom
8/27/2011 12:19:12 pm
Mike, I liked when you talked about todays technology and using critical. Soon every thing will be via computer or in siberspace and who knows if what we are reading has a happy face at the end or not and if it does is it legit. :)
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tricia steadman
8/27/2011 01:27:53 pm
The projects that I will be doing are: creating website, volunteering at a local charity, doing a power-point presentation. I am going to explore domestic violence, I am interested in volunteering at My Sister’s Place. I am going to research the agency on line and then I am going to call the office of My Sister’s Place and explain what I am doing and talk to them about giving my service to their organization.
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tricia steadman
8/27/2011 02:24:31 pm
What is critical reading? To me critical reading is being able to read between the lines. It is more about critical thinking, while reading a piece of information.
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tricia steadman
8/27/2011 02:26:35 pm
Renee williams,
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tricia steadman
8/27/2011 02:40:15 pm
I am not done with my website...its still under construction. I will try to finish it tomorrow.
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8/28/2011 06:24:17 am
I agree with Emarree that Critical reading involves forming your own conclusion about what you read, but we shouldn’t discount the author’s beliefs because they are different from ours. We have to evaluate the author’s expertise and we also have to judge if the author is trying to persuade reader’s to a certain viewpoint.
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Anne Meyer
8/28/2011 07:58:15 am
Shandell your comments are great!
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Anne Meyer
8/28/2011 08:12:15 am
CRE 101
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Abel Valdenegro
8/28/2011 09:51:55 am
We are required as students of Critical Reading 101 to do numerous projects such as individual, group project, service project and personal issue project. I’m going to explore this is issue of the SB1070 because in Arizona that is still a huge topic in today politics. Today a lot of states are boycotting and are against because they believe it discrimination for all Hispanics and the Latino community.
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Abel Valdenegro
8/28/2011 10:09:23 am
Emarree Williams i liked your response
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Marilee Eberhart
8/28/2011 11:54:29 am
Critical reading is an important part of literature. It involves going into depth about what you’re reading and to have a deep understanding of it. The reader should be able to recognize the author’s purpose and understand what message they are trying to portray through the writing. One way that I like to know that I really understood something is to summarize what I read. If I can correctly summarize a passage, then I know I have a good understanding of it. It also helps me to skim over what I read before reading it, that way I get a little bit of an understanding as to what I will be reading about.
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Marilee Eberhart
8/28/2011 11:57:42 am
Shandell,
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Jacqueline Garcia
8/28/2011 04:14:04 pm
Jacqueline Garcia
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Shandell McKay
8/29/2011 01:26:59 am
Parsa, I thought your post was very well put. I like how you mention that being able to read critically allows the read to ask how and why. I feel it is imperative to understand to the best of our ability the information in which we are reading. Great post!
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Shandell McKay
8/29/2011 01:31:44 am
Issac, very good post. I completely agree with what you said about using critical reading abilities to determine if the author in which you are read is reputable or not. An author's reputation could make all the difference in what you as a reader want to take away from what they have said. If you are read for pleasure it may not matter much but if you are reading for knowledge, work or school then reading bias or false information could end up to being very harmful.
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8/29/2011 08:05:45 am
Critical reading is what makes us as humans interesting. It soars deep into our minds and unlatches our deepest thoughts and emotions. Not everyone thinks the same and I love listening to others about what they think a passage means. We are all so unique and can take passages a totally different way than someone else. It also takes a lot of effort critically read something.
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Kimmy Walker
8/29/2011 08:08:20 am
Isaac I love how you talked about us being naive. I feel the same way. We need to really understand what we are reading and not let anyone put words into our mouth. Thanks!
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Lyndse Dorey
8/29/2011 12:11:15 pm
CRE 101 Section 29485
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8/29/2011 03:45:03 pm
Casey Jones
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Travis Riendeau
8/30/2011 09:24:31 am
Discussion Prompt # 1
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8/30/2011 02:36:24 pm
Georgina,
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8/30/2011 02:39:53 pm
Lyndse,
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9/1/2011 05:21:17 am
Travis,
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9/1/2011 05:37:43 am
Critical Reading
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caitlin teixeira
9/1/2011 09:17:41 am
Critical reading is more than just what the texts provides. When you read you should not only recognize what the text says, but how the text portrays the subject matter. When you figure out what the text really means you then get a better understanding of the material. Through this semester we will be doing a lot of researching to complete our projects. Giving credit is very important not only because you may be using someone’s words, and you do not want to leave the author hanging and not give them credit for their time.
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caitlin teixeira
9/1/2011 09:25:00 am
Christa Colvin I think you have a great idea of what critical reading is:)!
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9/2/2011 10:03:26 am
Critical reading is about understanding what you are reading. It’s more than comprehension but a true understanding not only of the meaning of the words you are reading but the thought behind it. In reading a book it does not give out emotion like a persons face so you have to see into it to understand what the author was trying to convey.
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9/2/2011 10:08:05 am
Christa,
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9/2/2011 11:40:38 am
What I think critical reading is reading and fully understanding what you are reading and learning from it. It is important to be able to critically read something especially when writing a report that way you can understand what you are reading and get more information out of it also. When using reading to help build your vocabulary your ability to recognize context clues and you will be able to associate words with other simpler word you already know. Also the more words you know you will be able to find out their origins and this will also make it easier for you to recognize meaning for unfamiliar words easier.
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Mike Campbell
9/2/2011 12:08:33 pm
Mike Campbell
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Karen Gonzales
9/2/2011 04:26:01 pm
Karen Gonzales
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Karen Gonzales
9/2/2011 04:31:38 pm
Mike Campbell,
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Karen Gonzales
9/2/2011 04:37:21 pm
Shandell McKay,
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Isaac Bonds
9/3/2011 06:45:36 am
How reading makes a difference
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Isaac Bonds
9/3/2011 06:49:34 am
Karen,
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Stephanie Toles
9/3/2011 07:56:26 pm
Isaac,
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9/3/2011 07:58:16 pm
Stephanie Toles
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9/3/2011 11:25:14 pm
Critical Reading is actively participating in reading and comprehending something you have read. I watched the video about “the 3 levels of reading” at the bottom of the page on the ‘Student Resources’ link on our class website (while I was trying to figure out all the websites pages on day one). It explained that there are three levels of reading. Level one is reading the actual words. At this point, if you come across a word you do not know, make note of it to look it up. Level two is making inferences about what the author meant, and did not clearly state it. At this level, you would begin to ask yourself questions about what the author is trying to say. Level three is Critical Reading. Putting together what you got from level one and two helps to build what you comprehend in level three. What I understood from this video is that you must be able to read and understand what the actual words are saying. Then you must be able to ask yourself questions to verify what the author is saying. Then interpret or reinterpret what you just read. By following these steps, you should be able to understand the purpose and point the author is trying to make about a sentence, passage, or other document.
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9/3/2011 11:38:04 pm
Shandell, I agree with your statement:
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9/3/2011 11:46:59 pm
Isaac,
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Josh Espinoza
9/4/2011 06:01:08 am
Josh Espinoza
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Keaton Honaker
9/4/2011 06:20:56 am
What is Critical Reading?
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Josh Espinoza
9/4/2011 07:33:01 am
Keaton,
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9/4/2011 09:42:10 am
What is Critical Reading?
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steve mccoy
9/4/2011 02:54:24 pm
There are a number of things to look at when faced with the question ‘What is Critical Reading?’. First we must look at fact versus interpretation. Then what a text says, does, and means.
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9/4/2011 04:15:07 pm
Critical reading is not only a good habit but a skill. In my first assignment I described critical reading as an aspect of reading that involves close speculation of words used in writing by the author. From the first chapter in Developing Critical Reading Skills, I have realized that critical reading is a skill that the author will need to use to associate the words they are writing on the page and the picture they are trying to portray in the mind of the reader. According to the book, Developing Critical Reading Skills, on page 10 “a good vocabulary is probably the single most important skill associated with good reading”. Without a well developed vocabulary than your comprehension of the material is also altered.
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Jennifer Damner
9/4/2011 04:32:25 pm
Jennifer Damner
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9/4/2011 04:33:21 pm
Critical reading is not only a style of reading but a combination of reading and note taking. These notes vary from mental to physical note taking and referencing. In critical reading you make note of words you do not recognize and look them up later. Looking up the words you don’t know helps you to understand what paragraph or passage is about. Different words mean different things in sentences. Sometimes a word can have multiple meaning depending on how they relate to the rest of the words. Once you have completed the process of evaluating what you read, you can begin to form informed decisions about what you have read. By using proper critical reading techniques you can analyze what you read in depth. One of the benefits to knowing what you are reading includes understanding the subject. You need to know what you are to reading so you can put it to use. There are many reasons why we need to critically read and evaluate a particular piece of material. Critical reading helps us breakdown any issue in a significant way. Once you analyze the issue you can express your conclusion to someone else. So critical reading can be used to identify what you need to learn from the text and to express what you learn to different audiences. The different audiences can vary from a teacher giving you an assignment, another student proof reading your essay, or just a friend that you are explaining an issue to. You are able to get to this point because of reading critically.
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9/4/2011 04:40:50 pm
Jennifer Damner
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9/4/2011 04:58:52 pm
Steven Richey, You provided a very good explanation of critical reading.Good job.
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Mrs. Salsedo
9/7/2011 03:37:17 am
What Is Critical Reading?
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Travis Riendeau
9/7/2011 09:46:49 am
Travis Riendeau
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Adan Perez
9/7/2011 01:24:35 pm
Critical reading is the understanding of a passage, article, paper or story you have just read. Coming up with your own conclusion or even questioning what the writer is stating. It’s more than just comprehension but a true understanding not only of the meaning of the words you are reading but the thought behind it. Coming up with your own conclusion and determining what the writer is trying to truly say in his writing. Also trying to understand his or hers feelings on tone of the writing. Understanding what you are reading is the main purpose of critical reading. This allows you to analyze and come up with your on conclusion on what you have just read. Critical read also allows a person to improve the comprehension skills and also can improve a person’s vocabulary. Taking your time and understanding the read will allow for overall a better understanding of what he or she is reading.
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Nancy Kline
10/2/2011 04:42:58 pm
Culture Contrast
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Nancy Kline
12/9/2011 11:41:23 am
Final Reflection
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