{"id":460,"date":"2015-04-29T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/?page_id=460"},"modified":"2015-04-29T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T17:46:11","slug":"critical-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/critical-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Objectives<\/h2>\n<p>This course will explain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading for understanding<\/li>\n<li>Recognizing arguments<\/li>\n<li>Understanding an author&#8217;s main idea (or position) and supporting details (or evidence)<\/li>\n<li>Evaluating an author&#8217;s use of evidence to support a position<\/li>\n<li>Determining the reliability of sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Goals<\/h2>\n<p>After completing this course, you will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify an author&#8217;s position in a piece of writing<\/li>\n<li>Recognize the author&#8217;s use of evidence to support the position<\/li>\n<li>Understand the difference between major supporting details and minor supporting details<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate the strength of the author&#8217;s use of evidence to support a position<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate the credibility of sources you consult.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>When you are a critical reader, you do much more than remember an author&#8217;s ideas. You should understand the author&#8217;s main idea (or <strong>position<\/strong>) about a subject, see the author&#8217;s opinions, and analyze the author&#8217;s decisions about using major supporting details and minor ones as <strong>evidence<\/strong> to support the author&#8217;s position. In other words, critical readers can understand how ideas fit together to make the author&#8217;s point, or <strong>argument<\/strong>, and evaluate if the argument is believable. Whether you are reading an academic essay or a newspaper editorial, critical reading allows you to draw your own conclusions logically about what an author says. This course will show you, as a reader, how to recognize positions and evidence and to evaluate what you read. It will also show you ways to evaluate the credibility of written sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/critical-reading\/position-and-evidence\/\" class=\"button pull-left\">Get Started<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives This course will explain: Reading for understanding Recognizing arguments Understanding an author&#8217;s main idea (or position) and supporting details (or evidence) Evaluating an author&#8217;s use of evidence to support a position Determining the reliability &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/critical-reading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/student-skills-workshops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}