Critical Reading Discussion

Now that you know how to outline, summarize, and synthesize the information you read in academic texts, let's practice applying these skills to a short article.

Instructions

To prepare for this discussion, first read three short articles on multitasking:

• The Science of Multitasking, and Why You Should Doodle in Class

• Think You're Great at Multitasking? Think Again

• Is Your Team Multitasking to Suvive Your Videoconference Meetings?

Apply critical reading strategies as you read and re-read. Remember that critical reading is essentially creating a dialogue with the text, so jot down your reactions, ideas, questions, comparisons of texts, and personal examples. After you have read each article critically, create an outline and summarize each article.

Share with your classmates in the forum:

• Your "dialogue" with one of the articles that shows your application of critical reading strategies. You may do this in many different ways. You may want to cut and paste the article's text into a Word document and then annotate it in a different color text. You may want to just submit your notes, making sure to identify the sentences/paragraphs that correlate with each note. You may want to use a chart or a visual as your dialogue. However you choose to complete this part of the learning activity, make sure to be very clear about which article you're responding to and at which point.

• A summary or outline (for one of the three articles).

Reply to your classmates with feedback or suggestions about their submissions.

Adapted from: Susan Oaks, https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-esc-educationalplanning/chapter/critical-reading/
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