teaches you the “what” of an issue, but also helps you think about and respond intelligently to the relative strength of the writer’s opinions, ideas, and theories. Critical thinking, reading, and writing enables you to distinguish between informed ideas and pure speculation, rational arguments and emotional ones, and organized essays and structurally deficient ones. Active reading means learning to annotate, to reflect on what you read, and develop personal responses in order to prepare yourself for writing topics…
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