Teaching them to fish: Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing

I have a PhD in literature and experience teaching at the college level. My focus in tutoring is to get students to do ?critical? reading, which is to discover and understand the information and ideas in a piece of writing, and then to evaluate this information in order to carefully reflect and analyze the work. Critical writing follows critical reading when students are able to make their own argument in the paper and support it from their critical reading of the text. This is a skill t... Read More >>