Critical Reading Analysis

CRITICAL READING ANALYSIS

INST 110I/Dr. de Brito YOUR NAME:

READING TITLE: ____________________________________________________________________________

AUTHOR’S NAME: ___________________________________________________________________________

Instructions :

(1) Please use the space provided on this sheet to highlight the main points on the Chapter that you have been assigned to write your CRA on; (2) type up the FORM, and turn in your complete answers to your instructor, per Course Schedule. (3) communicate your thoughts clearly; (4) Use your own words as much as possible while examining an author’s writing; (5) quotes from authors are welcome as well; as long as you use proper quotation marks and style; (6) feel free to use some of the sentence-starters that I have provided, below; (7) Jot down the page number(s) where you got your data/information from (8) Use a separate form for each article/chapter [IF you have been asked to analyze more than one article/chapter].

Please highlight 4 main points the author(s) make in this chapter, and provide the appropriate supporting information/ideas/evidence:

Four main points of the article/chapter are …

1. Main point one:

One of the author’s main points is that …

Supporting evidence provided by the author:

The author argues that …

2. Main point two:

A second main point in this chapter/article is that …

Supporting evidence provided by the author:

The evidence the author provides for … is …

3. Main point three:

Supporting evidence provided by the author:

4. Main point four:

Supporting evidence provided by the author: