Why Are Critical Thinkings Class Reading Critically Important?

Reading well is important in everyday life, we read street signs, text messages, blogs, news articles, and the list goes on and on, but when it comes to a critical thinkings class reading is especially important for multiple reasons. One of these reasons is the fact that critical thinkings means evaluating an issue in order to form a judgement, and to evaluate we have to do our own research and do some digging. Reading well enables us to understand and find deeper meanings in some of these pieces we use for our research.

Some of the practices I can take from this chapter is what they call "reading actively" where you pay attention to particular aspects of language or logic. In this section of reading some of the phrases they point out like