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Reading and Writing Skills
Reading Process and Reading Strategies
Overview of the text
Skimming
main point
Scanning
specific information
Previewing
readily visible texts
Context Clues
Synonyms
similar meaning
Examples
Antonyms
opposite meaning
Explanations and Definitions
Situations
Denotation
precise
basic
literal meaning
Critical Reading
Techniques to develop critical reading skills
Keeping a reading journal
writing ideas
Annotating the text
making notes
Outlining the text
Summarizing the text
main points
Questioning the text
specific questions
Claims
Implicit Information
Explicit Information
Characteristics of good claims
specific and focused
interesting and engaging
argumentative and debatable
logical
Types of claim
Claim of fact
quantifiable assertion
Claim of value
moral
philosophical
aesthetic
Claim of policy
specific actions as solutions
to a particular problem
Critical Reading as Reasoning
Assertion
fact
convention
opinion
preference
Counterclaims
rebut a claim
Evidence
facts and statistics
opinion from experts
personal anecdotes
Characteristics of good evidence
relevance to the central point
unified
specific and concrete
accurate
representative
Defining Pre-Writing
knowing the kind of paper
writing situation
purpose
reason
topic
specific
tone
attitudes and feelings
Pre-Writing Strategies
Brainstorming
Free Writing
Clustering or Mapping
Connotation
ideas
feelings
attitudes
Context of Text Development
Context
cultural
social
political
historical
. Intertextuality
connections
language
images
characters
subjects
themes