PHL 700R DAY 2 Critical Reading: Deconstructing a Text
PHL 700R DAY 2 Critical Reading:
Deconstructing a Text
PHL 700R DAY
2 Critical Reading: Deconstructing a Text
PHL 700R DAY 2 Critical Reading: Deconstructing a Text
PHL 700R DAY 2 Critical Reading:
Deconstructing a Text
Critical Reading:
Deconstructing a Text Template
Directions:
Locate and print a short,
opinion- or position-based article or essay, preferably written by one author.
Do not select a peer-reviewed, scholarly source for this assignment. Instead,
your article or essay must be from a popular publication. Newspaper editorials,
blogs, political pundits’ websites, and educational or health care activist
organizations’ sites would provide appropriate material.
Conduct a close reading of the text
Identify implicit, empirically
grounded meaning from the text. Examples of this kind of reading might include
uncovering a political or ideological leaning based on the historical nature of
examples an author uses or determining an author’s value system regarding a
particular issue by analyzing hierarchical structures in the essay’s
organization.
Note. This is not an exercise in
determining whether the author is wrong or right in his or her position, as
these value judgments are typically irrelevant to the purpose of scholarship.
Try to identify the assumptions, context, situatedness, and embedded logic of
the argument through a close reading of the text. Unearthing these components
through an analytical process allows readers to discover evidence of conscious
or unconscious decisions the author made in writing the text. This evidence
assists in making valid, empirically driven claims regarding the text.
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Elements of critical reading
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General description
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Examples from the text (words, phrases, or passages,
including page numbers)
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Implications for my thinking and writing
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Uncovering explicit meaning
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What is the author’s intended message?
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How does the author convey this message?
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Uncovering implicit meaning
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What assumptions underlie the author’s message?
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What belief system does the text convey?
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What contradictions exist between the explicit and implicit meanings you
identified?
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Evaluating the author’s authority
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What is the author’s primary source of authority?
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What are the author’s secondary sources?
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Whose voices are privileged?
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How is the author situated in the larger discourse in the field?
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Identifying gaps
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What is omitted?
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Whose voices are silenced?
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How do these omissions influence your interpretation of the text?
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