Skills needed for doing a critique: summarizing and evaluating.

As a university student you are required to seek, make sense of, and share out information. This means you have to be able to evaluate how valid information is.

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Or disagree or both or neither.

Specifically, start with the Critical Reading for Summary in Chapter One.

Sum up first, then evaluate.

In other words find out more about the content and structure of the article. How is it organized? Concepts? Do a little research further into the content of the article.

Our textbook notes that it can be all three, but that you will usually find that a coherent article will have one of theses as its primary purpose.

You evaluate a specific text or article depending upon the author's purpose. It would be unfair to judge our first summary paper by how entertaining it was since its purpose is to inform and persuade universities to solve the problem of concept creep and the culture of victimhood.

Here are the questions that an informative article might answer:
1. What or who is ______?
2. How does ______ work?
3. What is the controversy about?
4. What happened?
5. How and why did it happen?
6.What were the results or consequences?
7. Arguments for and against?

Fact check?

Here is a great set of tools and suggestions for fact checking: https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/

This is the evaluation of the significance of the information. Does the author's information make a difference? Does the reader get anything from the information? How is this knowledge important? Is it important to you or to whomever you imagine the audience to be?
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You need to distinguish between the author's presentation of facts and figures and the author's attempts to evaluate. In other words you need look at both the facts as presented and whether the author is using them fairly, logically. You might ask if there is another way to interpret the facts. You might feel that there is not enough information to come to the conclusions that the author has come to.

Any persuasive purpose has to be in the form of a statement that a person can agree or disagree with

For example, if the author uses a survey result without discussing the source or quality of the poll and the pollster, that is unfair and suspect.

Two questions you need to ask to evaluate this:
1. Is the info accurate and up-to-date?
2. Is the information representative?

The text follows many

The text follows many examples using the article "We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way".

Consider
1. Emotionally loaded terms
2.Ad hominem argument
3.Faulty cause and effect
4.Either/Or reasoning.
5. Hasty generalization
6. False analogy
7.Oversimplification

There are many more. If you need more info check this out:

http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/logicalfallacies.html

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