Thursday, November 4, 2010

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.

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