BR Ch 4, 5

Critical readers read actively and with an attitude. reading actively means working with a text as you read. It means underlining and highlighting text and responding to information, ideas, and arguments. To develop a thesis statement, brainstorm or freewrite in response to your research question. after reviewing your response, settle on a preliminary thesis statement and use it to guide your critical reading. Mark sources: marking a source to identify key info, ideas, and arguments is a simple yet powerful active-reading strategy. Identify the type of source you are reading: one of the most important things to pay attention to as you read is the type of source you are reading. Most sources, whether they are informative or argumentative, make a main point that you should pay attention to as you read. Once you've identifies a main point, look for key points that support it. Evaluating sources: evaluating a source means examining its relevance, evidence, author, publisher, timeliness, comprehensiveness, and genre. the most important questions you should ask to determine the relevance of a source are about your purpose and audience.