ENGL 106 - Critical Reading in the Humanities

• Identify patterns of organization which provide order to written text.
• Identify and explain the rhetorical balance which must exist among the writer, the audience [reader], and the writing [text] in an example of expository writing
• List strategies for distinguishing major ideas [thesis, theme, etc.] from the supporting details
• Prepare an outline - using traditional outline criteria, a mapping technique, or a visual diagram - of a whole piece of text, so that the sequence of key ideas and their relationship to one another is traced through the entire work.
• Identify characteristics of and strategies for reading text in a variety of
  subject areas in the arts, the sciences, and the social sciences.
• Identify ways to read actively, rather than passively.
• Identify literal information in a given piece of text. Distinguish this information from information which can be inferred from the same text.
• Locate examples of fact in a given piece of text. Distinguish this information from information which can be classified as opinion.
• Identify reading tasks at a variety of cognitive levels and distinguish them from reading tasks at other cognitive levels.
• Identify reading tasks associated with the learning paradigms of philosophers and/or learning theorists such as Plato, Bloom, etc.
• Identify criteria, which characterize a critical reader.
• Summarize a writer’s underlying, but unstated, assumptions in a given selection of text.
• Select a piece of writing which contains symbolism and/or imagery, and explain how the writer’s use of figurative language enhances MEANING
• Identify ways to evaluate the effectiveness of a selected piece of text based on the information it contains and the writer’s strategies for communicating that information.

• Critical Thinking/Problem Solving

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