5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation

Thank you for exploring 5 Questions for Any Text: Critical Reading in the Age of Disinformation, by Marilyn Pryle.

In this sample, read the Table of Contents and the Introduction, which includes this excerpt:

“Here, I outline five specific questions to teach students how to look beyond a text itself—any text, in any form—and see the influences around it, the voices and sponsors, the craft and rhetoric, the intent and message. A critical, experienced reader wonders, What am I reading? What is it showing me? What is it hiding? How am I reacting? and How does it work? as they read. As a result, they are able to hold on to their own thinking and not be swayed by inflammatory rhetoric or savvy marketing. They are able to poke at a text like a curious scientist. They recognize their own knee-jerk reactions, biases, and feelings, and they are able to choose how to respond in ways that help further solutions instead of exacerbate conflict.”

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