Critical reading involves questioning the credibility of information by checking for proof from relevant sources. The document discusses two examples of analyzing the credibility of statements in passages. For statements to be credible, the writer needs to provide data from valid sources to back up claims rather than just opinions. Without proof from surveys, research or statistics, readers cannot verify that statements are facts rather than just opinions.
Critical reading involves questioning the credibility of information by checking for proof from relevant sources. The document discusses two examples of analyzing the credibility of statements in passages. For statements to be credible, the writer needs to provide data from valid sources to back up claims rather than just opinions. Without proof from surveys, research or statistics, readers cannot verify that statements are facts rather than just opinions.
Critical reading involves questioning the credibility of information by checking for proof from relevant sources. The document discusses two examples of analyzing the credibility of statements in passages. For statements to be credible, the writer needs to provide data from valid sources to back up claims rather than just opinions. Without proof from surveys, research or statistics, readers cannot verify that statements are facts rather than just opinions.
Critical reading involves questioning the credibility of information by checking for proof from relevant sources. The document discusses two examples of analyzing the credibility of statements in passages. For statements to be credible, the writer needs to provide data from valid sources to back up claims rather than just opinions. Without proof from surveys, research or statistics, readers cannot verify that statements are facts rather than just opinions.
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Critical Reading
Analyzing the information you read
What is critical reading?
Questioning the Not taking the credibility of the information you information you read at face value are reading • Credible information: • can be proved Checking reference • comes from relevant source Let’s analyze this paragraph
Instruction: Read the paragraph below then pay attention to the bold parts. Their credibility is questionable. What proof is needed to make them more credible?
Business is the most popular major in the US, and if you don’t already know this, a more common credential tends to be less valuable than a less common credential. Business majors who succeed tend to have very concrete skills, especially in quantitative analysis areas. Economics and finance majors will, on average, do much better than marketing or management or general business majors. Don’t avoid challenging courses, including business calculus. Also, don’t jump to an MBA; it’s the most common graduate degree grants, accounting for 1 in 4 master’s degrees, and with 200,000 given out each year, there are 4 MBAs granted for each bachelor’s degree in computer science. Practice 1
• Instruction: Read the question and the following answer below. Try to find the parts (in the answer) that are not credible and need proof. What kind of proof does the writer need?
• Q: What is the best job for a business major?
• A: The business degree is one of the most popular and generic degrees you can get. You will get exposed at the undergrad level to a little bit of management, economics, accounting, probably some finance, marketing, project management, business law. So you will be a specialist in nothing, but a generalist with the typical BS in Business. If you don’t have a passion for anything specific, but know you want to work in corporate America this degree may be a good fit for you. The reality is over 60% of people don’t work in their given field of study within 5 years, so this degree works if you want to just dabble in different areas of business and management. • “business degree is one of the most popular and generic degrees you can get.” (The writer should put data like survey, research, and valid data about the most popular and generics degree in a lot of university in that country or city to make sure the reader about the text.) • “The reality is over 60% of people don’t work in their given field of study within 5 years” (The writer should put data that show where the writer get that “60%” and 5 years”. If the writer doesn’t put any data the reader will not believe with that data and think it may be an opinion from the writer.) Practice 2
• Instruction: Read the question and the following answer below. Try to find the parts (in the answer) that are not credible and need proof. What kind of proof does the writer need?
• Q: Why do college students want to graduate as soon as possible?
• A: It's hard to say how to develop this attitude. People who are motivated usually have a clear goal and highly driven for the final result. I'm currently a PhD student. I have found people with work experiences before coming to grad school in general more motivated and more capable of getting work done on time. If you have been a student all along, it is not surprising you lack the motivation to finish things on time because there is rarely hard deadlines. Try an internship in a dynamic working environment, that might help. • “I have found people with work experiences before coming to grad school in general more motivated and more capable of getting work done on time.” (Even the writer PhD student or the writer sources for the text is from PhD student, the writer should go with valid data. The reader need more valid data to checking more and to make sure that is the fact. If the writer just wrtite the text just only like that, it’s sounds like an opinion, even it from PhD student. Practice 3
• Instruction: Read the question and the following answer below. Try to find the parts (in the answer) that are not credible and need proof. What kind of proof does the writer need?
• Q: Why is college often stressful?
• A: In my opinion stress only comes when someone is doing something repeatedly which he/she is not loving to do or have no idea what he/she is doing. So specially in India everyone follows the flow. If someone has no idea what to do then do engineering or BA. So now they come to college and start doing their work and then they realize that this is not what they were meant for and they do not love doing this. However, they cannot drop out because of what others might think and because they had paid a lot so they become stressed. • “stress only comes when someone is doing something repeatedly which he/she is not loving to do or have no idea what he/she is doing.” (The reader need valid data and credible sources to make sure the statement is a fact, the writer opinion just not credible for reader. • “So specially in India everyone follows the flow. If someone has no idea what to do then do engineering or BA. ” (That’s a danger statement that judge Indian without any valid data and credible sources. The writer could be sued by Indian that write the text because its like an judgement with no support data behind.
