How to do critical readings
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Answer all questions- knowledge (comprehension)
- Audience
- Technique (do 3 paragraphs) - identify , example, effect
- Point of view – explain
Tips to writing answers
- Full sentences
- Tense
- Quotes (one per question)
Rhetorical questions
- Physiological (in group/ out group) nobody wants to feel
stupid, want to agree with obvious answer
Repetition
- Emphasis/ importance
Poetry techniques
- Sound great= more knowledgeable
Hyperbole
- Emphasis, humorous (more likely to agree)
Listing (groups of three)
- Knowledgeable
Sentence variation
- Short: emphasis/ importance
- Long: excess of information, boring (disagree with sentence)
Appeal to authority (quotes, expert witness or statistics.)
- Knowledge…again
Emotive language
- Appeals to emotions
- Tugs on heart strings to agree. Heart over head
Inclusive language
- Our, us, we, you (pl).
- Part of group = agree
 Anecdotes (personal story)
- Illustrate a point
- Relatable
- Knowledgeable
 Humour
- Relatable= agree
- Distraction
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Audience
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Age
Gender
Education level
Origin
Lifestyle factors
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Formal- older, higher education
Informal- younger, low-med education
Direct address “we as parents”
Sophistication- high education level
Content- gender bias
Source- medium, origin
Humour- often targeted at men
BE EXCLUSIVE
 Identify