Preparing for successful academic writing
3.9 Reading with a critical eye
Reading critically requires using your critical thinking skills to break down an issue into its constituent parts and look at it more closely. It involves engaging in a dialogue with the author's ideas by actively asking questions before, during and after the process of reading. Did you miss questioning some of the claims from the article in the previous activity? Don't worry, it's easy to overlook potentially unsupported or misleading ideas when reading.
Critical readers are active readers. Critical reading is an important step towards critical writing. |
Further reading
• How to read critically (University of Auckland)