Learning the tools of critical reading and writing not only teaches you the “what” of an
issue, but also helps you think about and respond intelligently to the relative strength of the
writer’s opinions, ideas, and theories.
Critical thinking, reading, and writing enables you to distinguish between informed
ideas and pure speculation, rational arguments and emotional ones, and organized essays
and structurally deficient ones.
Active reading means learning to annotate, to reflect on what you read, and develop…
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