Module 5: Critical Reading as Looking for Ways of Thinking Flashcards
Also known as active reading. It is reading what is stated and unstated by the author to figure out what the author is trying to say.
Critical Reading
Asserts that a condition has existed, exists, or will exist. It is based on facts or data that the audience will accept as being objectively verifiable.
Claim of Fact
Attempts to prove that some things are more or less desirable than others. It expresses approval or disapproval or taste and morality. It makes a judgment and attempt to prove some action, belief, or condition is right or wrong, good or bad.
Claim of Value
Study of beauty and the fine arts. Controversies over works of art range fiercely among experts and laypeople alike.
Aesthetics
Express judgments about the rightness or wrongness of conduct or belief. Disagreements are as wide and deep as in the arts, and more significant. Although a writer and their reader may share many values, there are still many others they may disagree on.
Morality
Asserts that specific plans or courses of action should be instituted as solutions to problems. It proposes that specific action should be undertaken/completed by specific entities.
Claim of Policy
A method of organizing and accessing text or other data, such as tables, presentational content and images, through the use of hyperlinks. It is a non-linear way of presenting information that is accomplished by creating “links” between information.
Hypertext
The shaping of text’s meaning by another text. It is to borrow phrases and concepts from other works in your own. It is a way of accounting for the role of literary and extra-literary materials without recourse to traditional notions of authorship.
Example:
Author’s borrowing and transforming of a prior text, and a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another.
Intertext
