Section 1 Reading - An Active, Reflective, Problem-Solving Activity: 1. Analysis Making the Complex Simple; 2. Prior Knowledge and Meaning The Art of Controlled Inference; 3. I Know What It Says, But What Does It Mean? - Inferring Meaning. Section 2 Critical Reading of a Text as a Whole: 5. The Text as Portrayal Choices; 6. A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose... Or Is It? - What Examples Are Examples Of; 7. "Know That We Have Divided Into Three Our Kingdom..." - Identifying Analytic Parts; 8. Inferring Meaning from Relationships Inference Equations; 9. Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? - The Choice of Language; 10. "Authoritative Sources Said..." - Invoking Belief and Acceptance; 11. Critical Thinking Going Beyond an Interpretation. Section 3 Tactics and Techniques - Putting It All Together: 12. Restatement, Description, and Interpretation - A Review; 13. Sample Analyses. Texts For Analysis: I. Contrasts - A. The Ku Klux Klan, B. The Assassination of Malcolm X, C. Gays and the Military, D. A Question of Ethics; II. Petitions, Arguments and Pleas; III. Contemporary Issues. Appendices - Resources for Critical Reading: 1. Outlining; 2. The General/Specific Relationship; 3. The Role Model of Paragraph Structure; 4. The Descriptive Model of Paragraph Structure; 5. The Relationship Model of Paragraph Structure; 6. Logic and Statistics.
