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Critcial Reading

• Critical Reading Guide ( PDF137K) This guide outlines five steps for engaging a reading in a more active, critical fashion, and can be used in almost any discipline. It also provides a short checklist of questions to help students analyze a reading's thesis, arguments, assumptions, evidence, and bias. It also includes a number of sentence starters that can help students formulate responses to the reading.

• Guidelines to Evaluating Evidence (MS Word .doc file) This worksheet helps students identify the thesis, assumptions, arguments, evidence and bias of their readings. It’s designed for comparing two articles on a particular topic, but could also be used for just a single article or for comparing the first and second read-through of a single article. It’s a valuable experience for students to see how their understanding deepens as they review the article. It’s applicable to almost any discipline.