UNM Core Writing OER Collection
About This Book
Thinking Critically About Written Texts and Images Thinking About Written Texts To be a critical reader, though, you need to be more than a good predictor. In addition to following the thread of communication, you need to evaluate its logic. To do that, you need to ask questions such as these as you consider the argument: Is it fair (i.e., unbiased)? Does it provide credible evidence? Does it make sense, or is it reasonably plausible? Then, based on what you have decided, you can accept or rejec
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | Writing and editing guides, Higher education, tertiary education, Teaching of reading, writing and numeracy, Teaching of a specific subject |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 29 |
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| Institution | University of New Mexico |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- Multimodality
- Textual Analysis
- Profile
- Evaluation/Review
- Body Paragraphs
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- Proposal
- Analytical Reports
- Strategies for Writing
- Outlining Your Message
- Standards and Style in Writing
- Revision
- Writing Thesis Statements
- Writing Topic Sentences
- Writing Paragraphs Using Logical Organization
- Argumentation
- Rhetoric is the way that authors use and manipulate language to persuade an audi
- Choosing a Rhetorical Pattern
- Description
- Definition
- Classification
- Comparison and Contrast
- Cause and Effect
- Conducting Preliminary Research
- Popular vs. Scholarly Sources
- Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
- Scholarly Sources and Library Databases
- Other Types of Source Material
- Speech and Public Discourse