ENG 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Critical Reading
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Eng 110 ch 2 from reading as a writer to writing as a reader. Annotating adding notes on a text commentating or explaining the content; leaving your mark on the page. Ways to annotate: number the key information/main points, identify the situation that motivates the authors" analysis, make connections to your own experience and to another text. Critical reading actively reading by bringing your own knowledge, experiences, and interests to a text so that you may respond to the writer. Reading as a writer: analyzing a text rhetorically. Rhetoric analysis means of analyzation by identifying a writer"s purpose for responding to a situation by composing an essay that puts forth claims meant to sway a particular audience. Thesis / main claim the controlling idea that crystallizes a writer"s main point, helping readers track the idea as it develops throughout the essay.
