Part 3 – The art of academic reading
1. What is academic reading about
1.2. Exercises 8.2-8.3
Choose an academic text (a book or an article) to read in the discipline of your choice. Follow the instructions from the Rosario English Area Critical reading worksheet at the following link
The University of Leeds encourages to answer the following questions while reading an academic text:
1. Is the author an expert/academic?
2. What kind of reasons/evidence has the author provided for their main argument and how relevant and reliable are these reasons/evidence?
3. How convincing is the overall argument? Why (not)?
4. Are there any assertions in the article/text that are unsupported?
5. Has something been omitted? What and why?
6. How effective is the language on the strength of the overall argument?
7. Is the conclusion reasonable?
8. What are the strengths and weaknesses of this text?
9. What is your position on the subject? How does it differ from the argument in the text? How will you use the text?
10. How does this text relate to other information you have read? Does it contradict, support or challenge other evidence?
11. How is this text significant to your research? What can be learnt from it?
12. What else needs considering? Which aspects of this argument would you like to investigate further?
Source: University of Leeds Online Resources Library, accessed on Nov 9, 2021 at https://library.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/37/critical_thinking_questions
Exercise 4: Choose an academic text (a book or an article) to read in the discipline of your choice in English, Czech other language of your choice. Follow the instructions from the University of Leeds above and notice the difference between reading a text and critical reading of academic texts.