Reading critically response

I thought that this reading process made many valid points of how people don’t always read critically when they need to, and the author gave many viable options to become a better critical reader.

Summarize: After reading a piece, the author recommends righting a summary of the paragraphs in the piece, and then writing a summary of the essay itself, in order to obtain a better understanding of the author’s message.

Think Critically: The author of almost every essay written has had a clear message that they wished to express. The process then calls for one to think why the author wrote what he did; what did certain happenings in the piece mean, or what was the author trying to demonstrate.

Analysis: Here is where one looks for ways in which the author expressed his ideas through the essay. Whether by tone, plot, etc. there are always different ways in which one expresses his ideas.

Inference: Now, one makes an assumption of what the author’s message was. This can be accomplished through looking at their background, lifetime, beliefs, or anything about the author’s situation that caused him to express the ideas he has.

Synthesis: Then one must think about how the elements of the essay fit together to represent the author’s message. How did the relationships between the characters

Evaluation: Finally one must evaluate how the author presented his message by contemplating the tactics he used, and determining whether or not it was truly effective.