Discusses a technique teachers may use to overcome student apathy toward Reading. (RB)

A second reading of April Morning" is necessary to discover its meaning. (SW)

Critical reading is a developmental process which begins at the readiness level through the use of pictures, and extends to skill in interpreting idea-laden statements using theories and propositional reasoning. (Author)

A study of Richard III, Shakespeare's version, versus a study of the real king, can help to prevent the complacent state of mind and will encourage students to search for the truth, freed from the propaganda with which it is often surrounded. Brief annotated bibliography. (Author)

Describes a method used to help introductory college sociology students explore the range of sociological literature and become acquainted with the works of current scholars. Students read a number of journal articles and wrote critiques of six of them in the form of letters to their parents. (Author/AM)

Offers a handout for helping remedial, unmotivated readers to become more critical readers. (JT)

Presents some ideas for teaching critical and creative reading to both gifted and average readers. (HOD)

The behavior of 22 nonproficient college readers in a critical reading situation was investigated by examining the criteria they used to evaluate the usefulness of an expository passage as a source of information for a report. Results indicated that they focused too heavily on factual content. (MKM)

Discusses nine senses which constitute a topical system for rhetorical critics. Each suggests a way of assessing the communicative potential of a variety of texts and is represented by the following critics: intentionalists, social critics, Boothians, critics of imitative rhetoric, formalists, genre critics, implicit rhetorical theorists,…

Suggests a method for teaching students how to mark up literary texts, as well as other texts in order to develop an intimate acquaintance with literature. (DD)

Encourages the study of critical and textual variations in order to raise students' awareness of how cultural and literary assumptions influence their reading and to show students how their understanding of a work can be altered by subtle variations. (DD)

Describes an assignment in which composition students explain how the elements in a magazine advertisement contribute to its overall strategy. Indicates that the assignment fosters students' critical judgment and audience awareness. (TJ)