Part One Frameworks and Approaches
Chapter 1 Reading Responsively, Reading Responsibly: An Approach to Critical Reading
Robert DiYanni
Being Critical
Responsible Reading, Responsive Reading
A Framework for Critical Reading
Making Observations
Establishing Connections
Making Inferences
Drawing Conclusions and Considering Values
Demonstration--E.B. White on the Moonwalk
Application--Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
A Bit of Context / A Suite of Exercises
Reflective Reading--Reading and Living
References
Chapter 2 Reciprocal Acts: Reading and Writing
Pat C. Hoy II
A Story of Necessity
Acts of Conception
Working from Images
Remembering Spontaneity
Becoming More Systematic
Merging What and How
Writing as Representation, Writing as Composition
References
Chapter 3 A Shared Horizon: Critical Reading and Digital Texts
Anton Borst
Critically Reading the Digital Native
Responding to the Digital Native
A Shared Horizon
Devices, Screens, and Digital Native Reading Practices
Conclusion
References
Part Two Critical Reading in the Disciplines
Chapter 4 Critical Reading and Thinking: Rhetoric and Reality
Larry Scanlon
Rhetorical Challenges
Ways of Reading
Logos, Ethos, Pathos
Demonstration: Annotating a Speech
Everything’s An Argument: Not It’s Not! Yes it Is!
A Suite of Exercises
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5 The Community of Literature: Teaching Critical Reading and Creative Reflection
Adrian Barlow
Ways of Reading
Textual Conversations--Critical Dialogue
Creative Reflection
Demonstration--Hardy’s “In a Museum”
Broadening Context
Application--Middlemarch, Chapter XXIX
Contemporary Contexts
Notes
References
Chapter 6 Approaching Intellectual Emancipation: Reading Art, Art History, and Wikipedia
Amy Hamlin
Introduction--Reconsidering Wikipedia
Reading Art: The Visual Analysis
Reading Art History: The Annotated Bibliography
Guidelines for Critical Reading of Art History
Introducing the Annotated Bibliography
Reading Wikipedia: The Comparative Analysis
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7 Reading History
Michael Hogan
Basic Matters
Challenges for Teachers
Three Kinds of Reading
Selecting Historical Documents for Analysis
Marking and Preparing Historical Documents
Reading Abraham Lincoln’s House Resolutions 12/22/1847 Reading Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Speech Opposing the Vietnam War
Conclusion
Some Useful Sources for Critical Reading in History
References
Chapter 8 Philosophy and the Practice of Questioning
Matt Statler
Questioning Toward Truth
How Can We Know Anything at All?
Asking Questions
The Pedagogy of Paradox
A Numbing Process
Knowing and Doing the Good
Truth is Fleeting
Toward Practical Wisdom
Analysis in Practice
Multiple Framing
Reflective Explorations of Meaning
So What? The Effects of Reading Philosophy Critically
Notes
References
Chapter 9 Engaging Religious Texts
Tom Petriano
Introduction--“Pay Attention!”
Reading as an Embodied and Dialogic Act
Insights from the Religions
Christianity
Wisdom from the Monastic Tradition of
Lectio Divina
Judaism
Islam
Hinduism
Buddhism
The Three Worlds of Religious Texts
Practices for Engaging Religious and Theological Texts
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10 Gender Studies as a Model for Critical Reading
Pamela Burger
Gender Studies and Critical Reading
Deconstructing Gender
Documentary Projects
Staging the Documentary Project
Aesthetic Distance and Ironic Images of Gender
Melanie Pullen’s High Fashion Crime Scenes and Cindy Sherman’s Centerfolds, 1981
References
Chapter 11 Reading Films
William V. Costanzo
Personal Response
Analyzing Story
Basic Film Terms
Formal Analysis
Genre Analysis
Cultural Analysis
Historical Analysis
Representation in Film
Film Theory
Exercises
References
Chapter 12 Thinking Through Drama
Louis Scheeder
Drama and Argument
The Classical Studio
The Structure of Verse
Following the Verse
Exercises
Conclusion
References
Chapter 13 Reading and Teaching Pop Songs
Thomas M. Kitts
Popular Music and Its Contexts
Reading a Pop Song
Exercise
Writing about Music
Comparing Songs
Theodor Adorno’s Criticism of Pop Music
Socially Conscious Music
Additional Writing Assignments
Conclusion
References
