Skills
What is Critical Reading?
Critical Reading Skills
Determining an Author’s Purpose
Determining an Author’s Intended Audience
Determining an Author’s Point of View or Bias
Determining an Author’s Tone and Intended Meaning
A Word about Standardized Reading Tests: Critical Reading

Creating Your Summary
Developing Chapter Review Cards

Readings
Selection 8-1 "Think Before You Speak: Public Speaking in a Multicultural World" from The Art of Speaking by Stephen E. Lucas (Speech Communication)
Selection 8-2 From Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters’ First 100 Years, by Sarah and Elizabeth
     Delaney, with Amy Hill Hearth (Memoir)
Selection 8-3 From The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (Literature)