Introduction to Critical Reading

Class Attendances:    05% Class Test:                 05% Assignment:               05% Mid-Term:                  40% Trimester Final:         45% (will strictly be  followed)

Department of Tourism and Hotel Management

Course Code: IEN 103

Critical Reading

BTHM (Evening)

Course Content:

Critical Reading Basic Development: Asking the Right Questions

ü      Asking the Right Questions: A Comprehensive Example

ü      What are the Issues and Conclusion?

ü      What are the Reasons?

ü      What Words or Phrases are Ambiguous?

ü      What are the Value Conflicts and Assumptions?

ü      What are the Descriptive Assumptions?

ü      Are there any Fallacies in the Reasoning?

ü      How Good is the Evidence?

ü      Are there Rival Causes?

ü      Are the Statistics Deceptive?

ü      What Significant Information is Omitted?

ü      What Reasonable Conclusions are Possible?

Reading Practices with Critical eye:

ü      Reading organization

ü      Summary functions

ü      Recognizing paragraph types

ü      Simultaneous functions

ü      Reading control

ü      Spot the difference

ü      Focus on paragraph heading

ü      Foreground and background information

ü      Meaning in a text

ü      Understanding reviews

All the Study Materials will be given in the Classes.

They will also be found electrically on http://www.critical-readings.blogspot.com

Md. Reza-E-Rabbi

Lecturer

Dept. of English

IBAIS University.